Nancy Wake
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Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca, was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a post-war career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
Quotes
[edit]- I would just look over to the officer, flutter my eyelashes and say ‘Do you want to search moi?’ and they would laugh flirtatiously, ‘No Mademoiselle, you carry on’.
- Reported in Peter FitzSimons, Nancy Wake (2001), ch. 11
- I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
- Reported in David Fickling, "A belated salute for war heroine", The Guardian (23 February 2004)
- In my opinion, the only good German was a dead German, and the deader, the better. I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more.
- Reported in Kim Willsher, "Farewell to Nancy Wake, the mouse who ran rings around the Nazis", The Guardian (9 August 2011)
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Nancy Wake on Wikipedia
