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MADAME FOURCADE’S SECRET WAR

Author Lynne Olson Publisher Scribe Price £22 Released Out now

“She was certainly no stranger to carving her own path despite what others thought”

Inside the crowded shelves of Second World War histories lie a number of now-iconic women who served as spies

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