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The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
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A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill, she became head of a clandestine army in World War II. Her team went deep behind enemy lines, linked up with resistance fighters, destroyed vital targets, helped Allied pilots escape capture, assassinated German soldiers, and radioed information back to London. As the biographer of her mentor in the SOE, William Stevenson was the only person Vera Atkins trusted to record her story.
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As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for 12 of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkins’s extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe.
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we will never know much of what she knew/did
- De reader mother en 02-15-20
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The Confidante
- The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
- De: Christopher C. Gorham
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
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With a disarming mix of charm and Tammany-hewn toughness, Rosenberg began her career in public relations in 1920s Manhattan. As FDR's unofficial adviser, Rosenberg soon wielded enormous influence—no less potent for being subtle. Her extraordinary career continued after his death. By 1950, she was tapped to become the assistant secretary of defense—the highest position ever held by a woman in the US military—prompting Senator Joe McCarthy to wage an unsuccessful smear campaign against her.
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Part History, Part Promotion
- De D. Bucks en 06-07-23
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Clementine
- The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- De: Sonia Purnell
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
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By Winston Churchill's own admission, victory in the Second World War would have been "impossible without her". Until now, however, the only existing biography of Churchill's wife, Clementine, was written by her daughter. Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine her due with a deeply researched account that tells her life story, revealing how she was instrumental in softening FDR's initial dislike of her husband and paving the way for Britain's close relationship with America.
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Exasperating At Times But Very Good--
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OSS
- The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency
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In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services - America's first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the US government has ever conducted.
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Evan's Review
- De Evan en 01-23-20
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Mary Queen of Scots
- The True Life of Mary Stuart
- De: John Guy
- Narrado por: Lucy Rayner
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In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than 30 years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady - achieving her ends through feminine wiles - and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.
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Horrible narration - don’t purchase
- De ballymerrigan en 12-27-18
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Left for Dead at Nijmegen
- The True Story of an American Paratrooper in World War II
- De: Marcus A. Nannini
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
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When Metcalfe boarded the C-47 which would drop him at Groesbeek Heights, just outside of Nijmegen, Holland, he was handed a box of twelve dozen condoms by an overconfident British lieutenant. He was to be among the first to jump into what should have been a picture-book meadow, free of German troops. Instead, it was defended by three German antiaircraft cannon emplacements. As he jumped into a hail of bullets and exploding shells, he watched his plane roll over and plummet into the ground.
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Great Story
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And If I Perish
- Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
- De: Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 21 h y 56 m
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In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses. For more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.
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Mind blown! I learned so much!
- De Christine Ciana Calabrese en 05-08-22
De: Evelyn M. Monahan, y otros
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The White Mouse
- De: Nancy Wake
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Nancy Wake, nicknamed 'the white mouse' for her ability to evade capture, tells her own story. As the Gestapo's most wanted person, and one of the most highly decorated servicewomen of the war, it's a story worth telling. After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by World War II and the invasion of France. Her life shattered, Nancy joined the French Resistance and, later, began work with an escape-route network for Allied soldiers.
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- De JanTru en 08-24-21
De: Nancy Wake
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
- Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
- De: Charles Hudson, Robbie Ethridge - foreword
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
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Between 1539 and 1542, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led a small army on an expedition of almost four thousand miles across Southeastern America. De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries until the publication of Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun. Using a new route reconstruction, anthropologist Charles Hudson maps the story of the de Soto expedition, tying the route to a number of specific archaeological sites.
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detailed analysis
- De Waylan Cooper en 03-19-25
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The Ghosts of Africa
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- De: William Stevenson
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In German-occupied East Africa during World War I, British forces have arrived. In defiance of his orders, German military commander Paul von Lettow enlists soldiers, civilians, and African rebels to fight against the British, forming the first modern guerrilla uprising of the time. Amid his political battles, Lettow is embroiled in a romantic relationship with an American woman who loves him, but who objects to his war.
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Insiteful
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The Lost Spy
- Slim Moran Mysteries Series, Book 1
- De: Kate Moira Ryan
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Set in 1949 Paris, Slim Moran runs the Pitchipoi Agency with her Nazi Hunter boyfriend, Daniel. Their specialty: to find those lost in the last war. After a couple of easy cases, business has ground to halt, and Daniel has just gone on another manhunt this time to find the Nazi Butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie. Slim is bored until a British spymistress asks her to find a missing woman spy long presumed dead.
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The little bit of truth within the fiction
- De Linda Baez en 03-14-24
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The Churchills: In Love and War
- De: Mary S. Lovell
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The first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchills sometimes achieved distinction but also included profligates and womanizers, and were saddled with the ruinous upkeep of Blenheim. The Churchills were an extraordinary family: ambitious, impecunious, impulsive, brave, and arrogant. Winston - recently voted "The Greatest Briton" - dominates them all. His failures and triumphs are revealed in the context of a poignant and sometimes tragic private life.
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Grand! In it's own wonderful way.
- De Cookie en 12-05-11
De: Mary S. Lovell
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- Bird Miller
- 04-26-21
incredible
encyclopedic who's who of the F branch of the SOE....a bible for French resistance genre addicts...dive in, come up with respect...fabulous narration as well
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- njslattery
- 05-27-23
For those well versed in WWII history
The story is fascinating though it jumps around a lot, following people and events rather than chronology. But it offered much I didn’t know about the “close work” clandestine operations and the people who gave their life, and for many their lives to a noble cause. The brutality of the war on civilians is hard to take, but that part must be recognized. The indifference to the Jews and rampant antisemitism at the war’s end continues to play out even today. Vera Atkinson is a woman to honor. But I agree the narrator is monotone, but you can get past it.
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- Lindsey
- 09-01-22
She won WWII, despite British priggery
This book reveals the rarely seen dimension of the British SOE which made something from nothing in the course of defeating the Nazis. Regardless of British bureaucratic 5th column acts born of envy and Communist machinations, Vera (Goldberg) Atkins used any and every avenue to achieve success by clandestine means.
I was left marveling at the cast of characters, from Chuck Yeager to William E. Colby, who crossed her path and even worked beside her, as well as those post-war leaders who obstructed SOE’s efforts and obliterated SOE’s achievements.
What we call courage, she called integrity, and our children will be bitter that we confuse those words.
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- Anne
- 09-05-20
Amazing- Helps Make up for Misogyny in Time of War
Loved this! Had known nothing of this brilliant woman.
About time her genius was celebrated.
If they had stars on the wall in England, like at CIA she would deserve three.
Narrator's matter-of-fact voice makes her accomplishments more dramatic.
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- R. Murphy
- 08-15-15
Narrator speaks too fast
If you could sum up Spymistress in three words, what would they be?
The content of the book is fascinating, but the narrator speaks too fast. It takes such concentration to follow the book because of the fast reading and the jam-packed content. Generally I prefer audiobooks to actually reading a book, but in this case, I'd prefer to read the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-23-21
One woman's vision that helped end WWII
The woman known as Vera Adkins worked tirelessly, secretly, in the background during World War II, as one of the people who had a clear view of the threat Hitler posed to Europe and Great Britain. Most of the British government behaved as if it was still the 19th century. The upper and upper middle class was in charge and was appalled at the idea that anyone else could be allowed to make decisions or even play a large part in running the government. They didn't understand what Hitler intended, and consistently undermined the efforts of the people who did.
Much of the book speaks to the rise of Hitler in the 1930's, and the efforts of Vera Adkins and others to stay aware of the Nazi efforts to take control of Germany. Many in England thought they could appease Hitler and make deals with him, and didn't understand that he would never honor those deals. Many people in government still believed they could control Hitler, and that what he did
in Europe, or to the Jews, wasn't their business. Some still thought they could wage war - if it even came to that - on horseback and that mechanized weapons were unnecessary!
Before Churchill was Prime Minister he realized he needed two things - good information from Europe, and an agile, independent force who could strike at Hitler's forces. Vera Adkins was instrumental in setting up and running such an organization. She had very little support from the government, and there were those in power who actively worked against her. They couldn't see that her people got results, with better effect than the old-fashioned ways of the entrenched government officials. In the end, the work of the Special Operations Executive shortened the war by several months. After the war one American official stated that if SOE had been fully funded the war might have ended a year or more earlier. The SOE was the beginning of modern spying, and was the example used in the US to begin the Green Berets in the Viet Nam war, and probably Seal Team 6.
The book isn't easy to listen to, because the narrative jumps between places, times and people. The narrator doesn't pause between these transitions so I had to listen closely to keep up. It's not a story that has an obvious beginning, middle and end. Rather, it's a retelling of a time when most people just wanted to get on with their lives and pretend everything was ok, while the ground beneath them was shifting in unimaginable ways. Vera Adkins and others like her were trying to keep up with the shifts and undercurrents that were driving their world towards war, and doing everything thing they could to keep up with changes and do anything they could to stop or slow down the Nazis.
If you're a history buff you'll find this fascinating. The parallels between the 1930's and today are startling, in the US and around the world. We can say Never Again, but maybe history is repeating itself.
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- LadyJac10
- 12-04-20
Dry, yet interesting
This read more like a textbook than a biography. Although my mind drifted often & I had to repeat sections, I learned a lot when I was able to concentrate. While mostly monotone, the narrator spoke several languages authentically.
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- Marjorie
- 01-19-22
too dense to listen to
The underlying story of Vera Atkins is definitely a story worth telling. And this is the most comprehensive telling that I have listened to. But, perhaps it was an impossible task to coral so many skeins of the story into a coherent whole. The constant back-and-forth between Vera's story and the stories of the many, many people she interacted with was irritating & confusing. The tat-a-tat rhythm the narrator used was tiresome and made it all to easy to drift away from listening.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-15-22
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I nearly didn’t listen to this book because of the negative reviews concerning the narration.
I loved the quiet professional voice of the narrator!
The book is interesting and I highly recommend it. I have listened and read many books on this topic but this was new and informative.
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- Glenn
- 03-29-14
Great Story - Unfortunately Monotone Performance
What made the experience of listening to Spymistress the most enjoyable?
The story itself. And the writing was brisk and informative.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Why, the Spymistress, of course
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Really a one tone narrator. Very little inflection. It was, literally, mono-tonous. It is really too bad because the story is very interesting, and one that needs to be told. It is quite remarkable that this performance was 'approved' by editors/directors. Sentence after sentence delivered with the same intonation contours. It becomes almost impossible to distinguish given and new information.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Only a strong reaction to the performance. I like the narrator's accent, but his lack of any kind of variation in delivery made listening a challenge.
Any additional comments?
I finished the book because I wanted to hear the story. And it was well told, just not narrated very well at all.
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