Siân Rees
The French Resistance Heroine Who Defied the Gestapo
Price: £20.00
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 25/06/2015
ISBN: 9781782433873
Subject: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biographies, Science - History - Philosophy
Binding: Hardback
Size: Other
Extent: 256 pages
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
Edition Status: Out of Print
Imprint: O'Mara Books
Publication date: 30/06/2016
ISBN: 9781782436591
Subject: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biographies, Science - History - Philosophy
Binding: Trade Paperback
Size: Other
Extent: 256 pages
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
Edition Status: Out of Print
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Caroline Moorehead, Sunday Times
Praise for The Floating Brothel] History at its most engaging
Daily Telegraph
Praise for Sweet Water and Bitter] A fluent and lively account
Guardian
Praise for Moll] Rees is a lucid, intelligent guide
Sunday Herald
Praise for The Ship Thieves] In Rees's hands Porter's story reads like a fictional thriller but imparts the knowledge of a serious historical work
Times Literary Supplement
The first full English-language biography of a remarkable woman who has become legendary in the history of the French Resistance
Lucie Aubrac became a heroine after outwitting the Gestapo and joined the French Resistance alongside French national hero Jean Moulin during WWII, but was later accused of spying on and betraying her comrades
From the publishers of Rosie's War, over 45k ebooks sold
Siân Rees's first book, The Floating Brothel, was made into a Timewatch documentary on BBC2
Includes an 8pp plate section
Siân Rees was born and brought up in Cornwall, spending much of her childhood in boatyards and at sea. She read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her first book, The Floating Brothel, was written after living in Australia, and published in 2001. It was followed by The Shadows of Elisa Lynch (2003) after a stint in South America, The Ship Thieves (2006), and Sweet Water and Bitter: the ships that stopped the slave trade (2009), and Moll: the Life and Times of Moll Flanders in 2011. She lives in Brighton and France.