Nancy parachutes into France and becomes an integral part of the French resistance. To make a vast understatement, her adventures in effort to put an end to the Nazi occupation of France were numerous and harrowing - using all of her faculties, and highly trained skills (and her ample amount of luck) from making and using bombs, right down to her bare hands. Join us for the thrilling conclusion of Nancy Wake AKA Hélène AKA Madame Andrea AKA The White Mouse!

Sources:

Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.

Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.

Nancy becomes notorious for her courier work and staging prison breaks that she earns herself the code name, The White Mouse, from the Gestapo who were on to her. Join us for Nancy’s harrowing escape over the Pyrenees - not that she was done with the fight - in part 2!

Sources:

Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.

Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.

Nancy Wake was a kiwi who grew up in Australia and became one of the great heroes of the French Resistance during WWII. She became so notorious in fact, that the gestapo code named her “The White Mouse”. Join us for part 1!

Sources:

Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.

Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.