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When Nancy falls unexpectedly in love with handsome French industrialist and playboy Henri Fiocca in Marseilles, no sooner has she agreed to become Mrs Fiocca than the Germans invade France and Nancy takes yet another name, a code name – the first of many.As Lucienne Carlier Nancy helps smuggle people across borders and creates such a successful escape network for Allied soldiers that the Nazis hunting down an elusive female operative dub her ‘The White Mouse’ and put a five million franc bounty on her head. In 1936 Nancy Wake is living in Paris after bluffing her way into a job as a foreign correspondent and witnessing firsthand the terror of Hitler’s rise in Europe, firing her determination to do anything she could to fight the Nazis. And I think I might throw up.įebruary 29, 1944: I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time … I don't care that every man is looking at me as though I don’t belong. But this isn’t a fashion show and I’m not here to make friends, so I don’t care that every man on this plane is looking at me as though I don’t belong.

The camel- haired coat and parachute pack don’t do much to help the ensemble. Me in slacks, blouse, and silk stockings beneath my coveralls, tin hat, and British army boots. I’ve only just been lifted into the belly of the Liberator bomber like a clumsily wrapped package. The irony of this is not lost on me, because I am about to jump out of an aeroplane for the first time. Tonight, I am Hélène and I am going home. My identity is an ever-shifting thing that adapts to the need at hand. They are lies scribbled on forged travel documents. Some of them are real-I was given four at birth alone-but most are carefully constructed personas to get me through checkpoints and across borders.