![]() ![]() ![]() She was a courier, carrying messages, money, and munitions to other agents. They convinced her to do so, leaving her children with relatives in Britain.Īssigned to the SPINDLE network, she served in Southern France, then run by the German-friendly Vichy government. Instead, as Loftis shows, the SOE saw her as a perfect agent to infiltrate into occupied France. She thought she could be useful as a translator. ![]() She wanted to do her bit for Britain after France fell in June 1940, and offered her services. Sampson was born in France, but had moved to Britain between World War I and II after marrying an Englishman. “Code Name: Lise, The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy,” by Larry Loftis tells her story. One of the agents recruited to infiltrate into France was Odette Sampson, a married mother of three. On July 16, 1940, Winston Churchill began an effort to “set Europe ablaze,” creating the Special Operations Executive to strike at Nazi Germany from within Occupied Europe - the nations conquered by Germany. “Code Name: Lise, The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy,” by Larry Loftis, Gallery Books, 2019, 385 pages, $27 Book Review “Code Name: Lise” reads like a thriller and a romance, yet is solid history When it appears, I post the review here on the following Sunday. ![]() (It is not the biggest daily newspaper in Texas, but it is the oldest.) My review normally appears Wednesdays. I write a weekly book review for the Daily News of Galveston County. ![]()
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