The male spies kept getting killed, so they dressed a 23-year-old woman as a child, taught her to kill, and dropped her into Nazi-occupied France—where she outsmarted the Third Reich for 135 days.
May 1, 1944. Five days before D-Day would change history.
Phyllis Latour stood in the open door of a bomber aircraft, staring down at Nazi-occupied Normandy thousands of feet below. Wind screamed past her. Her parachute was strapped tight. Her cover story was memorized. In minutes, she'd be alone in enemy territory with nothing but her wits and a battered bicycle.
She was 23 years old. And the Nazis had already killed every male agent sent before her.
Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive—his secret army of spies and saboteurs—was desperate. D-Day was coming. The largest military invasion in history would succeed or fail based on intelligence from occupied France. They needed to know German positions, troop movements, fortifications. Lives depended on it.
But the Gestapo was hunting …More