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Seymour-Jones, Carole.
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Cornioley, Pearl Witherington, 1914-2008.
Great Britain. Special Operations Executive.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
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Seymour-Jones, Carole.
Cornioley, Pearl Witherington, 1914-2008.
Great Britain. Special Operations Executive.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
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She
landed
by
moonlight
: the
story
of
secret
agent
Pearl
Witherington
/ Carole Seymour-Jones.
by
Seymour-Jones, Carole.
Hodder, 2014.
Call #:
940.548641 S521s
Subjects
Cornioley,
Pearl
Witherington
, 1914-2008.
Great Britain. Special Operations Executive.
World War, 1939-1945 --
Secret
service -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
ISBN:
9781444724622 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
She
landed
by
moonlight
: the
story
of
secret
agent
Pearl
Witherington
: the
real
'
Charlotte
Gray
'
Description:
viii, 421 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-408) and index.
Summary:
On the night of 22 September 1943
Pearl
Witherington
, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and
agent
of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine,
Charlotte
Gray
,
Pearl
had a dual mission: to fight for her beloved, broken France and to find her lost love.
Pearl
's lover was a Parisian parfumier turned soldier, Henri Cornioley, who had been taken prisoner while serving in the French Logistics Corps and subsequently escaped from his German POW camp.
Agent
Pearl
Witherington
's wartime record is unique and heroic. As the only woman
agent
in the history of SOEs in France to have run a network,
she
became a fearless and legendary guerrilla leader organising, arming and training 3,800 Resistance fighters. Probably the greatest female organiser of armed maquisards in France, the woman whom her young troops called 'Ma Mère',
Pearl
lit the fires of Resistance in Central France so that Churchill's famous order to 'set Europe ablaze', which had brought SOE into being, finally came to pass.
Pearl
's
story
takes us from her harsh, impoverished childhood in Paris, to the lonely forests and farmhouses of the Loir-et-Cher where
she
would become a true 'warrior queen'.
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