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D-Day Girls

the Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
May 04, 2019lilypad_1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a very thoughtful, well laid out book about some very amazing women who risked their lives and everyone around them to save France from Nazism. I find it ironic because the author makes a point to detail how women in the OSE in Britain and in the different resistance organizations in France who were directed and supplied by Britain were treated so shabbily in wages, pension, post-war opportunities, and gratitude and credit they so richly deserved and then in the title calls them girls. Anyway, this is a very good book, details the European side of WW2 and how the resistance worked within France to assist the Allies in preparation for and during and after D-Day. One thing I had never heard was that due to the Nazi infiltration of a prominent resistance network in 1943 D-Day had to be put off for a year thus giving the Germans that much longer to harden defenses along the Northern coast of France which made it much harder for the landing armies to penetrate. Very interesting book.