Odette - Couverture rigide

Tickell, Jerrard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0750529210 ISBN 13 : 9780750529211

Editeur : Magna Large Print Books, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst... I completely believe in the potential nobility of the human spirit.'

During some of the darkest days of the Second World War, a young Frenchwoman living as a mother and housewife in England left her ordinary life to become a British agent, working covertly in France to aid the Resistance. Entering a murky and deadly world of espionage and double-dealing, she was betrayed to the Germans, only to endure torture by the Gestapo and the hell of the infamous concentration camp of Ravensbruck. Yet she retained a compassion, grace and spiritedness that mystified her captors; and, living to see the liberation of Europe, she kept, in the direst circumstances, her fundamental trust in goodness. ODETTE tells the moving and inspirational story of a woman, who, in her courage and her ability to hold on to hope, was far from ordinary.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jerrard Tickell (1905-1966) was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and London. His career as a writer began in 1936, with SEE HOW THEY RUN, and continued with a series of bestselling novels and biographies, ODETTE (1949) being the best known. Tickell married and had three sons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Magna Large Print Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750529210
• ISBN 13: 9780750529211
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible