Avenue of spies a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
(2015)

Nonfiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/940.53444/KERSHAW,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/940.53444/KERSHAW,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Large Print, [2015]
DESCRIPTION

x, 426 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780804194853, 0804194858
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

The true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordinarily high. They would be risking not only their own lives but that of their only child, twelve-year-old Phillip. Toquette agreed to allow the Goelette network of the resistance to use their home as a drop box for vital information en route to Britain. As D-Day neared, the noose began to tighten

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