Search Results: Titles starting with C from Paul Fortney

The story of Violet Szabo,widowed at the Battle of El Alamein, who joined the British SOE as a secret agent in France. She was parachuted into Limooges in June 1944 to co-ordinate the the work of the Resistance in the first days after D-Day. Captured ny a panzer division, she was handed over to th Gestapo in Paris. She was sent to Revensbruck concentration camp and executed in January 1945. Szabo was posthumously awared th George Cross and the Croix de Guerre.

Lucy Walter, secretly married to Charles II, his wife as an exile in Holland and Paris, and mother of the Duke of Monmouth - had she other attributes than beauty? Has her character been misrepresented down through the years? E;izabeth Goudge, with good reason to believes so, presents her life story in a fresh and fascinating light. It begins with her childhood at Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire, and ends when Charles is restored to the English throne. Originall published in 1970