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02194aam a2200265 a 4500 001 3765F06238B011E49B96EF8DDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140910010245 008 140320r2013 001 0beng 010 $a nil00012353 020 $a 0062297031 020 $a 9780062297037 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Shakespeare, Nicholas, $d 1957- 245 14 $a Priscilla $b : the hidden life of an Englishwoman in wartime France / $c Nicholas Spakespeare. 260 $a New York : $b HarperCollins, $c 2013. 300 $a 423 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-423). 520 $a When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, Priscilla, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the trove of love letters, photographs, and journals, surrounded by suitors and living the dangerous existence of a British woman in a country controlled by the enemy. He had heard rumors that Priscilla had fought in the Resistance, but the truth turned out to be far more complicated. As he investigated his aunt's life, dark secrets emerged, and Nicholas discovered the answers to the questions over which he'd been puzzling: What caused the breakdown of Priscilla's marriage to a French aristocrat? Why had she been interned in a prisoner-of-war camp, and how had she escaped? And who was the "Otto" with whom she was having a relationship as Paris was liberated? Piecing together fragments of one woman's remarkable and tragic life, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and a spellbinding slice of history. 600 10 $a Mais, Priscilla Rosemary $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Women $z France. 941 $a 1 952 $l AOPB937 $d 20191105013453.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3765F06238B011E49B96EF8DDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search