Coming Soon: Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity

I am a coward.

I wanted to be heroic and I pretended I was. I have always been good at pretending.

So begins Elizabeth Wein's extraordinary , due out in the US this May. The story of a passionate friendship set in the landscape of World War II Britain, women pilots, espionage, Nazis, the Resistance, and occupied France, it is one of the most remarkable books I've read.

The book begins as an account by one Verity — a young female British spy who has evidently been captured by t...