ISBN: 0006139337 
Godina izdanja: 1975
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

R. J. Minney - Carve Her Name with Pride
Fontana, 1975
190 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motor-car dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) and was recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. Her first trip to France was completed successfully even though she was arrested and then released by the French Police.

On June 7th, 1944, Szabo was parachuted into Limoges. Her task was to co-ordinate the work of the French Resistance in the area in the first days after D-Day. She was captured by the SS `Das Reich` Panzer Division and handed over to the Gestapo in Paris for interrogation. From Paris, Violette Szabo was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp where she was executed in January 1945. She was only 23 and for her courage was posthumously awarded The George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

The story of Violette Szabo, the World War II British agent portrayed by Virginia McKenna in the film of the same title.

Chapters
1 - Early Influences
2 - Brixton
3 - The War Breaks Out
4 - Etienne Szabo
5 - Brief Homecoming
6 - With the Ack-Ack Battery
7 - Tania
8 - The Interview
9 - Initial Training
10 - Finishing School
11 - Ready to Go
12 - Her First Mission
13 - On the Normandy Coast
14 - Home
15 - Her Second Mission
16 - The Ambush
17 - To the Rescue
18 - Into Germany
19 - Ravensbrück
20 - Waiting for News
21 - Tania Puts On Her Party Dress


Nonfiction, Biography, 0006139337