The Flame of Resistance
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The Flame of Resistance

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  • TitelThe Flame of Resistance
  • VerlagQuercus
  • EinbandartSoftcover
  • Seiten496
CHF31.50
  • Lieferung auf Bestellung
  • Mittwoch, 25.10.2023 bei Heimlieferung
  • Mittwoch, 25.10.2023 bei Abholung

Produktebeschrieb

The Flame of Resistance

Produktbeschreibung

'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' Dan Snow

During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany.

Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing and exotic dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the most highly-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all 'negroes and Jews'. Yet, instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight she went from performer to Resistance spy.

In The Flame of Resistance best-selling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little known history of the famous singer's life. During the years of the war, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers - a cover for her spying work-- she participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served: the US, the nation of her birth; France, the land that embraced her during her adult career; and Britain, the country from which she took her orders, as one of London's most closely-guarded special agents. Baker's secret war embodies a tale of unbounded courage, passion, devotion and sacrifice, and of deep and bitter tragedy, fueled by her own desire to combat the rise of Nazism, and to fight for all that is good and right in the world.

Drawing on a plethora of new historical material and rigorous research, including previously undisclosed letters and journals, Lewis upends the conventional story of Josephine Baker, revealing that her mark on history went far beyond the confines of the stage.

'A story of incredible bravery in the face of tyrants who invaded a free and democratic nation, this will have powerful resonance today.' Tim Spicer

'An eye-opening, pulse-quickening history. Josephine Baker led a wartime double life of extraordinary jeopardy and Damien Lewis's needle-sharp narrative is jagged with suspense. Yet he also writes with great warmth and sensitivity, creating a powerfully moving portrait of a woman who fought prejudice and hate in all its forms.' Sinclair McKay

'A gripping true story of a remarkable heroine. The details of Josephine Baker's espionage for the Deuxieme Bureau, the French military intelligence agency during the war, make for a fascinating read in Damien Lewis's meticulously researched account' Deborah Cadbury


Titel & Produktsprache

TitelThe Flame of Resistance
UntertitelAmerican Beauty. French Hero. British Spy
SpracheEnglisch
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Titel & Produktsprache

TitelThe Flame of Resistance
UntertitelAmerican Beauty. French Hero. British Spy
SpracheEnglisch

Autoren & Verlag

Autor/-inDamien Lewis
VerlagQuercus

Auflage & Publikationsort

Erscheinungsjahr2022

Buch Eigenschaften

EinbandartSoftcover
Seiten496
ThemenbereichNachschlagwerk

Produktdimensionen

Gewicht0.64 kg
Höhe238 mm
Breite156 mm
Dicke48 mm

ISBN

ISBN978-1-5294-1675-6

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