Avenue of spies

a true story of terror espionage and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France

Avenue of spies

a true story of terror espionage and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
Alex Kershaw
large type - 2015

The true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordinarily high. They would be risking not only their own lives but that of their only child, twelve-year-old Phillip. Toquette agreed to allow the Goelette network of the resistance to use their home as a drop box for vital information en route to Britain. As D-Day neared, the noose began to tighten.

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37413316066192 متاح Non-fiction Large Print LGE-TYPE 940.5344 KERSHAW
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المؤلف الرئيسي: Kershaw, Alex (مؤلف)
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: New York : Random House Large Print, [2015]
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