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Dry and unemotional account of a female SOE agent, but great value in hearing it as she really saw it
Told in her own words you can hear the stiff upper lip and the way that people of that period try to make everything that they did sound so "matter of fact".
Whilst you feel Pearl is not telling the whole story here, this eyewitness account of the SOE is an important work as readers now have access to Witherington's actual words.
Although other books have been published recently about Pearl Wither ...more
Told in her own words you can hear the stiff upper lip and the way that people of that period try to make everything that they did sound so "matter of fact".
Whilst you feel Pearl is not telling the whole story here, this eyewitness account of the SOE is an important work as readers now have access to Witherington's actual words.
Although other books have been published recently about Pearl Wither ...more
Aug 12, 2013
KOMET
marked it as to-read
Sep 12, 2013
Mary
marked it as to-read
