Sunday, January 22, 2012

Nancy Wake

I am fascinated by the women who served in the OSS (the forerunner of the CIA) and the British Special Operations Executive in World War II.   Nancy Wake was the "most redoubtable" of SOE agents who operated in France, according to the Economist, and she died last week at 98.  Here's her obituary from the Telegraph.

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