Lindell's list : how American and British women were saved at Ravensbruck /

by Hore, Peter.

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BookPublisher: Stroud : The History Press, 2016Description: 288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780750966214 (hbk.) :; 0750966211 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5318 HORSubject(s): Lindell, Mary | Ravensbruck (Concentration camp) | Women concentration camp inmates -- Germany -- Ravensbruck | Women prisoners -- Germany -- Ravensbruck | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and DefenceSummary: Mary Lindell, the Comtesse de Milleville was British-born but a largely forgotten agent. She combined a passion for adventure with blunt speech and persistently displayed the greatest personal bravery. The Germans denied that American or British prisoners were imprisoned in Ravensbruck but Lindell smuggled out a secretly compiled list that detailed women who were agents of British Military Intelligence, Special Operations Executive or the French Resistance. This book details their survival and rescue under Mary's heroic leadership.

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Mary Lindell, the Comtesse de Milleville was British-born but a largely forgotten agent. She combined a passion for adventure with blunt speech and persistently displayed the greatest personal bravery. The Germans denied that American or British prisoners were imprisoned in Ravensbruck but Lindell smuggled out a secretly compiled list that detailed women who were agents of British Military Intelligence, Special Operations Executive or the French Resistance. This book details their survival and rescue under Mary's heroic leadership.

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