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Violette Szabo
- Author
- Susan Ottaway
- Narrator
- Esther Wane
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 13 May 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Totally fearless and a dead shot, Violette Szabo volunteered to become part of the Special Operations Executive, Britain's premier sabotage and subversion organization of the time. On June 7, 1944, Violette left behind a two-year-old daughter to parachute into France on a special mission.
Szabo and other British agents were assigned to organize French resistance fighters to hinder the advance of the SS Das Reich Division to the Normandy beaches. Unfortunately, Szabo's party was soon ambushed by the SS.
Unable to walk due to a twisted ankle, Szabo covered the retreat of her comrades with machine-gun fire. Captured, she went through a series of interrogations and changes of confinement before ending up at Ravensbruck, the German all-women's concentration camp. She was finally executed on January 26, 1945. She was twenty-three years old.
This exceptional work has been written with the assistance of Violette Szabo's daughter Tanya and unravels fact and fiction about one of the most fascinating characters of World War II.
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Details
- Author
- Susan Ottaway
- Narrator
- Esther Wane
- Duration
- 7 hours
- Release Date
- 13 May 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331945305
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Second World War, European history, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership
Synopsis
The story of Violette Szabo is one of the most extraordinary in the annals of World War II espionage and covert operations.Totally fearless and a dead shot, Violette Szabo volunteered to become part of the Special Operations Executive, Britain's premier sabotage and subversion organization of the time. On June 7, 1944, Violette left behind a two-year-old daughter to parachute into France on a special mission.Szabo and other British agents were assigned to organize French resistance fighters to hinder the advance of the SS Das Reich Division to the Normandy beaches. Unfortunately, Szabo's party was soon ambushed by the SS.Unable to walk due to a twisted ankle, Szabo covered the retreat of her comrades with machine-gun fire. Captured, she went through a series of interrogations and changes of confinement before ending up at Ravensbruck, the German all-women's concentration camp. She was finally executed on January 26, 1945. She was twenty-three years old.This exceptional work has been written with the assistance of Violette Szabo's daughter Tanya and unravels fact and fiction about one of the most fascinating characters of World War II.
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