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The Invisible Woman

Erika Robuck · 2021

This novel tells the story of Virginia Hall, an American spy in occupied France, and her constant risk of discovery, offering a tense, character-driven look at a woman living a double life under the occupier's nose.

The Lost Girls of Paris

Pam Jenoff · 2019

Centers on ordinary women sent into occupied France as radio operators and couriers, capturing the fear and improvisation of untrained civilians in clandestine work.

A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

Caroline Moorehead · 2012

It follows a real network of French women resisters from their first small acts of defiance through arrest, deportation and the moral compromises of clandestine life, giving you the same intimate, high stakes texture as The Nightingale but rooted in documented history.

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