Nancy Wake, nicknamed “The White Mouse,” SOE agent who led Resistance fighters in occupied France during WWII, 1944 [1138×1600]

In 1933, a young journalist named Nancy Wake watched Nazi gangs beat Jewish civilians in the streets of Vienna. She later said that day she swore she would fight them. Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Wake lived in France with her husband, Henri Fiocca, until the German invasion ended their comfortable life. [...]