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Nancy Wake

Russell Braddon, Nancy Wake: the story of a very brave woman (London: Collins, 1956). [The popular first full length autobiography.]

Russell Braddon, Woman in arms: the story of Nancy Wake (London: Collins, 1963)

Peter FitzSimons, Nancy Wake: a biography of our greatest war heroine (Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins, 2001). [Written with the collaboration of Nancy Wake.]

Robert Jackson, Heroines of World War II (London: Barker, 1976), pp. 93-109

Nancy Wake, The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse (South Melbourne: Macmillan,1985)

Margaret Collins Weitz, Sisters in the Resistance: how women fought to free France 1940-45 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995). [Although Nancy Wake has only a brief mention, this book provides useful background to her wartime work in France.]