New Zealand’s MIGHTY MOUSE
The Gestapo called her the White Mouse because of her ability to elude capture during World War Two, and the nickname stuck. But there was nothing mousy about Nancy Wake, the New Zealand-born journalist turned spy and resistance worker.
Nancy, who died in 2011 aged 98, is credited with saving the lives of hundreds of Allied servicemen by escorting them out of war-torn France and into neutral Spain between 1940 and 1943. But she also took lives – once killing a German soldier with her bare
