by Lynne Olson
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Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight over World War II, 1939–1941
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron; Forgotten Heroes of World War II (WITH STANLEY CLOUD)
Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (WITH STANLEY CLOUD)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LYNNE OLSON is the New York Times bestselling author of Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War; Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939–1941; and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour. Among her five other books is Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England. She lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.
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