What is there to say about this book?

Not much except that I absolutely loved it.

I knew of Nancy Wake long before I saw this book, I knew a very small part of her story and I knew that she was an amazing woman. What I didn’t know was how amazing and how much she was hated by the Gestapo, nor how much she lost by her actions.

This book details much but also glosses over much, if she’d written enough detail to satisfy me then it would be a much longer book and would be more of a diary or text book.

Wake was a journalist before World War II so she already had the writing skills to make her point come across and it shows in this book. In many autobiographies I read there is a formulaicness as if some parts of them are written by someone entirely different to the author. This is what I don’t get in this book. What I get is Wake’s lively, bubbly personality and the feel as if she’s written the whole book.

Do I recommend this book?

Absolutely and totally. But not if you have problems with details of torture, although you can skip those parts. Wake is open and above board in giving us details we often don’t want to know about but really we should. In fact, here’s the link to Booktopia so you can buy it and give me a very small percentage. But buying is optional, there are libraries.