Damien Lewis - Agent Josephine- American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy (epub)

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Damien Lewis - Agent Josephine- American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy (epub)



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Name: Damien Lewis - Agent Josephine- American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.78 MB

Book:

Title: Agent Josephine
Author: Damien Lewis
Language: English
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Politics, Nonfiction
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 9781541700666
Total pages: N/A

Description:

Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France.
Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the highest-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all "negroes and Jews." Yet instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight, she went from performer to Resistance spy.
In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers-a cover for her spying work-Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the...

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