By Larry Loftis

In 1942 a French mother living in England joins the SOE. Her father was hero and she wanted to follow in his footsteps. After several scrubbed missions and a plane crash she joins her team. Falls in love with her commander, and acts as a courier. After several harrowing missions she and her commander – Peter Churchill are captured. They spend the remainder of the war in prison and the in concentration camps until the end of the war. What protects them is a combination of courage and the Churchill name. Her work as a courier and her courage and cunning while under Nazi incarceration made her the most decorated British spy of World War II.

Odette Sansom was a courier. She was not an assassin, a thief, or a saboteur. She bravely moved messages and information, worked to make sure that radio transmissions were sent and received. Things pick up once they are captured, they are moved around, barely protected. And the aftermath, when people question the awards – but they can’t be formally answered due to the security classification around what they had done. Well worth a read.

384 Pages

3.75/5