Category:
Action,
Historical FictionLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
Britain Heroines Military Nazis Pilots Prisoner Road Trip Survival WWIIWritten by Elizabeth Wein
Format: M4B
Code Name Verity
By: Elizabeth Wein
Narrated by: Morven Christie, Lucy Gaskell
Series: Code Name Verity, Book 1
Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
Unabridged
Release date: 06-06-12
Language: English
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Rating: 4.3/5 (6,515 ratings)
Publisher’s Summary:
Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in Verity’s own words, as she writes her account for her captors.
My Summary:
Fantastic. Well read. A great story. If you listen to the Bombshell podcast, this is one of the Bombshell / War on the Rocks team’s fiction favorites.