Definitely not amateurs, Gestapo counterintelligence officers monitored radio transmissions, broke codes, transmitted their own disinformation, and arrested agents regularly. French volunteers in the Resistance were overwhelmingly amateurs sadly, this was also true of Britain’s military Special Operations Executive, which, cheered on by Churchill, recruited, dispatched, and supplied agents. Forced to stick closer to the facts, Rose delivers a swift-moving account that makes for sometimes-painful reading. Hollywood’s version would begin with “based on a true story…” and then make wholesale changes. Working diligently in the archives, the author turns up stories of Frenchwomen who found themselves in England after the war’s outbreak and volunteered to return to France to organize resistance groups, gather intelligence, and direct sabotage. Hollywood and popular writers often disagree, and their number includes journalist Rose ( For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History, 2010). Most military historians agree that the anti-Nazi resistance played a critical role in reviving defeated nations’ self-respect after the war but contributed only modestly to the Allied victory. A history/biography of a group of courageous women spies in World War II.
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