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Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

This is the astonishing true story of a young woman`s adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, and the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation. Over half a century later, her nephew, Nicholas Shakespeare, found a box of Priscilla`s notebooks and journals. He began investigating the rumours that she had escaped a prisoner-of-war camp and fought for the Resistance – and he finally unearthed the truth behind suspicions of disreputable love affairs and far darker secrets. “Haunting”. (The Times). “Extraordinary”. (Observer). “Vivid”. (Mail on Sunday). “Gripping”. (New York Times).

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