In May 1943, the young, pregnant Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac engineered the escape of her husband Raymond from the clutches of Klaus Barbie, the feared Gestapo chief later known as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’. When Raymond was arrested again that July, Lucie mounted a second astonishing rescue, pretending to be Raymond's pregnant fiancee in order to stage a marriage in extremis, then ambushing the prison vans in which he was being taken back to gaol. Spirited out of France with her husband by the RAF when she was nine months pregnant, she arrived in London a heroine.
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ISBN:
9781782433873
Format:
Hardback
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
23cm x 15cm
RRP:
$34.99
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sian Rees
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