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Agent Josephine American beauty, French hero, British spy

"In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers--a cover for her spying work--Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy....

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Main Author: Lewis, Damien (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.
Edition:First US edition.
Subjects:
Baker, Josephine, > 1906-1975.
Women spies > Great Britain > Biography.
African American women dancers > France > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > France > African Americans > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > France > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • A traitor unmasked
  • An honourable spy
  • From Paris with love
  • A most sensational woman
  • The darkness descends
  • It can't always be caviar
  • The enemy at the gates
  • The iron resistance
  • Stardom, her cloak and her dagger
  • The black angel
  • Invisible ink and secret steamships
  • On the Gestapo hitlist
  • Abandon all hope
  • Unbreakable
  • The twelve apostles
  • Dances with death
  • Operation Josephine B
  • Operation Underworld
  • Captured, imprisoned
  • The grim reaper calls
  • Lighting the torch
  • Die another day
  • Into the heat and dust
  • Liberation day
  • A song for Buchenwald
  • Epilogue.

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