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02544aam a22003495a 4500 001 559B16DED89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210629010024 008 201218s2021 |||| ||| |||||||||||| 020 $a 0525565493 020 $a 9780525565499 040 $d SILO 082 00 $a 813.6 100 1 $a Lawhon, Ariel 245 10 $a Code Name Helene $c by Ariel Lawhon. 260 $a USA $b Anchor Books $c 2021 300 $a 474 p. 520 $a Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name HlÌnÌe is a spellbinding and moving story of enduring love, remarkable sacrifice and unfaltering resolve that chronicles the true exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name. 520 $a It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper when she meets the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca. No sooner does Henri sweep Nancy off her feet and convince her to become Mrs. Fiocca than the Germans invade France and she takes yet another name: a code name. 520 $a As LUCIENNE CARLIER Nancy smuggles people and documents across the border. Her success and her remarkable ability to evade capture earns her the nickname THE WHITE MOUSE from the Gestapo. With a five million franc bounty on her head, Nancy is forced to escape France and leave Henri behind. When she enters training with the Special Operations Executives in Britain, her new comrades are instructed to call her HLâ¬NE. And finally, with mission in hand, Nancy is airdropped back into France as the deadly MADAM ANDR, where she claims her place as one of the most powerful leaders in the French Resistance, armed with a ferocious wit, her signature red lipstick, and the ability to summon weapons straight from the Allied Forces. 520 $a But no one can protect Nancy if the enemy finds out these four women are one and the same, and the closer to liberation France gets, the more exposed she--and the people she loves--become. 650 $a World War II $v Fiction. 600 $a Wake, Nancy, 1912-2011 655 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 6 952 $l YYPC162 $d 20240710105313.0 952 $l NWPC663 $d 20240709012434.0 952 $l SVPC124 $d 20240502160433.0 952 $l WFPC115 $d 20240425111737.0 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119015618.0 952 $l FHPB224 $d 20230202011433.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=559B16DED89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search