Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread: Joice Loch - Australia's Most Heroic Woman by Susanna de Vries

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Blue colour of inside front and back covers has rubbed off onto half-title page and back page respectively. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

During World War II, Australian Joice Loch was an agent for the Allies in Eastern Europe and pulled off a spectacular escape to snatch over one thousand Jews and Poles from death before the Nazis invaded Bucharest and escorted them via Constantinople to Palestine.