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Singer Actress Beauty Spy During WW2 Josephine Baker the worlds richest and most glamorous entertainer was an Allied spy in Occupied France This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany
Prior to World War II Josephine Baker was a music hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing her beauty and sexuality she was the most highlypaid female performer in Europe When the Nazis seized her adopted city Paris she was banned from the stage along with all negroes and Jews Yet instead of returning to America she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil Overnight she went from performer to Resistance spy
In Agent Josephine bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little known history of the famous singers life During the years of the war as a member of the French Nurse paratroopersa cover for her spying workshe participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as formidable spy In turn she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served the US the nation of her birth France the land that embraced her during her adult career and Britain the country from which she took her orders as one of Londons most closelyguarded special agents Bakers secret war embodies a tale of unbounded courage passion devotion and sacrifice and of deep and bitter tragedy fueled by her own desire to combat the rise of Nazism and to fight for all that is good and right in the world
Drawing on a plethora of new historical material and rigorous research including previously undisclosed letters and journals Lewis upends the conventional story of Josephine Baker revealing that her mark on history went far beyond the confines of the stage
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