A House For Spies, Edward WakeWalker
A House For Spies, Edward WakeWalker
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A House For Spies
SIS Operations into Occupied France from a Sussex Farmhouse

Author: Edward Wake-Walker

Narrator: Alex Wyndham

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/01/2020


Synopsis

An unforgettable history of French intelligence agents and courageous British pilots who risked everything in the fight against Hitler!

From 1941 to 1944, Bignor Manor, a farmhouse in Sussex provided board and lodging for men and women of the French Resistance before they were flown by moonlight into occupied France.

Barbara Bertram, whose husband was a conducting officer for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), became hostess for these daring agents and their pilots during their brief stopovers in their house.

But who were these men and women that passed through the Bertram's house?

And what activities did they conduct whilst in France that meant that so many of them never returned?

Edward Wake-Walker charts the experiences of numerous agents, such as Gilbert Renault, Christian Pineau, and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, and the networks of operatives that they created that provided top-secret intelligence on German defences and naval bases, U-boats, as well as Hitler,s devastating new weapons, the V-1 and V-2 flying bombs.

About Edward Wake-Walker

Edward Wake-Walker is the great nephew of Barbara Bertram. The son of a Royal Navy officer, he was educated at Marlborough College and Aix-en-Provence University before joining the staff of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1975. He has traveled extensively representing the RNLI as their PR director, and he has also published five books on the history of saving life at sea. The actor, Hugh Grant, his first cousin, is also a great-nephew of Barbara Bertram.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dona's on July 11, 2022

I was mostly skimming A HOUSE FOR SPIES by the time I gave up. I just found that the book wasn't actually about what it purported to be about. Theme incognito? In the 100 pages I (mostly) read, only about 20 of them were about the house and its truly fascinating owner, Barbara. The rest were about p......more