The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victoryCompelling - these under-reported stories of fearless and principled women will provide inspiration - Booklist
With skill and heart, Sarah Rose captures the adventures of an extraordinary group of women who kept the resistance alive during the darkest days of World War II, risking everything to liberate their loved ones, their nations, and democracy itself. I couldn't stop reading - Jason Fagone, Author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Rose delivers a swift moving . . . expert blow-by-blow account . . . A spy thriller that fights against the idea of "the original sin of women at war" - Kirkus Reviews
Daring, modern, and gorgeously written . . . This is the D-Day book the world has been waiting for - Karen Abbott, Author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Sarah Rose's D-Day Girls is . . . a page-turning spy story that will, at long last, inscribe the names of three remarkable female spies-Andree Borrel, Odette Sansom, Lise de Baissac-into our history books - Susannah Cahalan, Author of Brain on Fire
A fresh, thrilling account of the female spies whose courage and audacity helped win the day on June 6, 1944 - Alex Kershaw, Author of the Bedford Boys and Avenue of Spies
Sarah Rose is the author of
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History. She has written for the
Wall Street Journal,
Outside,
The Saturday Evening Post, and
Men's Journal. In 2014, she was awarded a Lowell Thomas Prize in Travel Writing.