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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Seymour-Jones, Carole.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Seymour-Jones, Carole.       by title:      She landed by moonli...       by call number:      940.548641 S521s     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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'. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.548641 S521s Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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