Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned.

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures and misadventures in Nazi-occupied France's dangerous world.

For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirées 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. (publisher blurb)