Victoire: A True Story of Espionage and Resistance in WW2

Roland Philipps

Victoire: A True Story of Espionage and Resistance in WW2
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 March 2022
Pages
368
ISBN
9781529111293

Victoire: A True Story of Espionage and Resistance in WW2

Roland Philipps

An incredible story of heroism, complicity and survival about a charismatic double-agent who played a major role in World War Two - Agent Victoire.

‘The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka the Cat and Agent Victoire - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief’ The Times

An exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2’s most charismatic double-agents.

Occupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carre, codenamed ‘the Cat’, later known as Agent Victoire - charismatic, daring and a spy.

These are the darkest days for France, yet Mathilde is driven by a sense of destiny that she will be her nation’s saviour. Soon, she is at the centre of the first great Allied intelligence network of the Second World War.

But as Roland Philipps shows in this extraordinary account of her life, when the Germans close in, Mathilde makes a desperate and dangerous compromise. Nobody - not her German handler, nor the Resistance and the British - can be certain where her allegiances now lie…

‘A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told’ Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline

‘Gripping… Enough plot twists and moral ambiguity to satisfy any spy novelist’ Spectator

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