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Code Name Hélène

Ariel Lawhon

Start date: September 1, 2024

Finish date: September 30, 2024

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Apr 18, 2020 Bruin Mccon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library-ebook, library-audiobook, ww2-historical-fiction

Code Name Helene is a WW2 historical fiction novel based on a real-life badass, Nancy Wake.

Nancy moves to Paris to report for Hearst and meets the toast of France, playboy Henri Fiocca. They fall in love and marry. Then the war starts. Early in her career, Nancy interviewed Hitler. Somehow she ends up fighting against his German army as a leader in the Resistance.

Make no mistake: she was one hell of a lady. I’ve read so many historical fiction novels about WW2 and especially about the French Res ...more

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Feb 28, 2020 Debie Orrell rated it it was amazing

Shelves: netgalley, five-star-reads

Ariel Lawson has written an amazing historical fiction novel about the real WWII heroine, Nancy Wake. Nancy was an Australian woman that was also a British citizen. Nancy goes to England to visit and while there she gets herself a position as a journalist for the Hearst newspapers and magazines where she interviewed Adolf Hitler just before his rise to power.

Nancy goes to France to visiting friends and working where she meets and eventually marries her husband Henry Fiocca who is the second lov ...more

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