Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent

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PREFACE BY HERVÉ LARROQUE This book is intended primarily for young adults It relates the authentic story of Pauline Pearl Witherington who enlisted in 1943 in a secret British service the SOE F to help the resistance in France After several months of intensive training she parachuted in the night of September 22 23 1943 She was 29 years old After that she lived an unusual life for seven months Most of the time traveling on night trains she went to deliver mes sages the content of which she rarely understood She accom panied people as a guide transported materials and communi cated back to London via coded radio messages She was what was called a courier This work done in solitary fashion was obviously dan gerous for she could have been arrested and exposed at any moment by the Gestapo or by the French police She had sev eral occasions to be quite afraid Pauline recounts her life at that time put up here and there at the homes of trustworthy friends and disguised with a false identity Marie Verges cosmetics representative xv