Mrs Mahoney's Secret War
Author: Strachan, Claudia
ISBN: 9781845965952
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jun 2011
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
The inspiring story of a courageous young woman who worked to defeat the totalitarian Nazi regime during the Second World War.
Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine.
Finally arrested in 1945, she was liberated as the British Army advanced towards Hamburg. After the war, Gretel fell in love with a British officer. When he was transferred back to England, her determination and bravery were tested once more.
ISBN: 9781845965952
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jun 2011
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
The inspiring story of a courageous young woman who worked to defeat the totalitarian Nazi regime during the Second World War.
Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine.
Finally arrested in 1945, she was liberated as the British Army advanced towards Hamburg. After the war, Gretel fell in love with a British officer. When he was transferred back to England, her determination and bravery were tested once more.
