The White Mouse

By: Nancy Wake

Narrated by: Christine Jeffery

After living and working in Paris in the 1930's, Nancy married a wealthy Frenchman and settled in Marseilles. Her idyllic new life was ended by World War II and the invasion of France. Her life shattered, Nancy joined the French resistance and, later, began work with an escape-route network for allied soldiers. Eventually Nancy had to escape from France herself to avoid capture by the Gestapo. In London she trained with the Special Operations Executive as a secret agent and saboteur before parachuting back into France. Nancy became a leading figure in the Maquis of the Auvergne district, in charge of finance and obtaining arms, and helped to forge the Maquis into a superb fighting force. During her lifetime, Nancy Wake was hailed as a legend. Her autobiography recounts her extraordinary wartime experiences in her own words.©1985 Nancy Forward (P)2021 Bolinda Publishing

Better listening!

This is better than the novel about her! The true story and told in her words is a treasure.

Love it

I had read the Alice Network and loved that. This biography was awesome. Such an amazing woman.

A truly admirable individual

After reading “Code Name Helene” and finding out the subject of that book had written her own autobiography I knew I had to read it. I did and it did not disappoint!
I enjoyed it for its subject matter and its forthright style. The story of how Nancy Wake, an Australian woman living in France, came to be an active resistance worker in WWII is really fascinating.

Her style is blunt, direct - it resonates as if a straightforward person were telling you about their experiences directly with no literary artifacts.

Nancy becomes a real person to the reader very fast and her matter of fact way of dealing with the story is bracing.

A truly admirable individual!

power of love and friendship

What a scary and fulfilling life. To hear from the other parts of WW 2 , how they remained loyal, fought against tyrany and won.

Amazing story of ordinary people doing the extraordinary for their country and in Nancy’s case her adopted country

The way Nancy’s account was read was bland and read too quickly without feeling; so for me, making Nancy sound a bit flippant and unfeeling about certain tragedies in her life, for example the death of her husband.