Forgotten Heroines of WWII

The Limping Lady

From the series: Forgotten Heroines of WWII

In the heart of occupied France, the Gestapo is hunting a ghost. They only know one thing about their most dangerous enemy: her limp.

Sent to Lyon, a city built for conspiracy, an American spy with a wooden leg codenamed “Cuthbert” begins a one-woman war against the Third Reich. Under the guise of a naïve journalist, Virginia Hall orchestrates...

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The Silver Thread

From the series: Forgotten Heroines of WWII

From the rain-slicked streets of Oregon to the burning skies of Canton, Hazel chases a single, impossible dream: to fly. When World War II erupts, she joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), a band of pioneers ferrying lethal warbirds across a divided nation.

In the cockpit of a P-63 Kingcobra, Hazel finds her freedom. But on the ground,...

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The Invisible Front: The Secret War of Elizebeth Smith Friedman (Forgotten Heroines of World War Two)

From the series: Forgotten Heroines of WWII

Washington D.C., 1939. To the Navy, Elizebeth Smith Friedman is a “consultant” in a glorified supply closet. To her husband William, the man who broke the Japanese “Purple” code, she is the only mind that matches his own. But while William descends into the madness of a “Purple Fever,” Elizebeth catches a scent on the wind: a rhythmic,...

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