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This is hagiography, not biography. Not only is Violette without flaw or fault, the book presents myth as fact, with the shoot-out at the end that didn't happen. The book also doesn't acknowledge how SOE botched things in France. This is a book of its time, written too soon after the war for truth. Still, it's an important work of WWII spy literature, but it has to be read with a mind to what is not being said.
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