The Paris girl The young woman who outwitted the Nazis and became a WWII hero
Book - 2025
Written by her own daughter, this biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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New York, NY :
Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp
[2025]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "Originally published in the UK as Andrée's War by Elliott and Thompson"--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780806544298
- Introduction
- 1. An Acknowledgement
- 2. The Making of a Resistance Fighter
- 3. War!
- 4. The Evacuation of Paris
- 5. Life Under Occupation
- 6. A First Rebellion
- 7. A Life Lived Well
- 8. Fighting Back
- 9. Working Amidst the Enemy
- 10. Taking Risks
- 11. A Dangerous Affair
- 12. The Birth of Orion
- 13. Courage
- 14. Imperilled
- 15. The Allied Landings in North Africa
- 16. Arrest
- 17. Escape
- 18. Illness
- 19. Betrayal
- 20. Secret Agent
- 21. Gold
- 22. The Cyanide Option
- 23. The Brothel
- 24. The Arrest
- 25. The Cat with Nine Lives
- 26. Liberation!
- 27. Life After Liberation
- 28. A Just Reward
- Epilogue
- Intelligence Gathering in France
- A Note on the French Resistance
- Bibliography and Sources
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index