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. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served--the US, France, and Britain

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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.

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ISBN: 9781541700666
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xxvi, 466 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Edition First US edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2022.

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Agent Josephine : American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

by Lewis, Damien

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Agent Josephine : American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Author's Note	p. ix
	Preface	p. xv
Chapter 1	A Traitor Unmasked	p. 1
Chapter 2	An Honourable Spy	p. 23
Chapter 3	From Paris With Love	p. 39
Chapter 4	A Most Sensational Woman	p. 51
Chapter 5	The Darkness Descends	p. 61
Chapter 6	It Can't Always Be Caviar	p. 77
Chapter 7	The Enemy At The Gates	p. 93
Chapter 8	The Iron Resistance	p. 107
Chapter 9	Stardom, Her Cloak And Her Dagger	p. 117
Chapter 10	The Black Angel	p. 135
Chapter 11	Invisible Ink And Secret Steamships	p. 151
Chapter 12	On The Gestapo Hitlist	p. 165
Chapter 13	Abandon All Hope	p. 179
Chapter 14	Unbreakable	p. 193
Chapter 15	The Twelve Apostles	p. 206
Chapter 16	Dances With Death	p. 217
Chapter 17	Operation Josephine B	p. 233
Chapter 18	Operation Underworld	p. 249
Chapter 19	Captured, Imprisoned	p. 262
Chapter 20	The Grim Reaper Calls	p. 278
Chapter 21	Lighting The Torch	p. 295
Chapter 22	Die Another Day	p. 308
Chapter 23	Into The Heat And Dust	p. 328
Chapter 24	Liberation Day	p. 339
Chapter 25	A Song For Buchenwald	p. 353
	Epilogue	p. 365
	Acknowledgements	p. 389
	A Note on Sources	p. 397
	Selected Bibliography	p. 399
	Sources	p. 403
	Notes	p. 411
	Index	p. 453
	Association for the Defence and the Memory of Colonel Remy	p. 467

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