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Moondrop to Gascony audiobook
- By: Anne-Marie Walters
- Narrator: Nicola Barber
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Military
- Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Moondrop to Gascony Audiobook Summary
On a cold, moonlit night in January 1944, Anne-Marie Walters, just twenty years old, parachuted into southwest France to work with the Resistance in preparation for the long-awaited Allied invasion. The daughter of a British father and a French mother, she was to act as a courier for George Starr, head of the “Wheelwright” circuit of the Special Operations Executive. Over the next seven months, Walters crisscrossed the region, carrying messages, delivering explosives, arranging the escape of downed airmen, and receiving parachute drops of arms and personnel in the dead of night–living in constant fear of capture and torture by the Gestapo. Then, on the very eve of liberation, she was sent off on foot over the Pyrenees to Spain, carrying urgent dispatches for London.
Anne-Marie Walters wrote Moondrop to Gascony immediately after the war, while the events were still vivid in her mind. It is a tale of high adventure, comradeship and kindness, of betrayals and appalling atrocities, and of the often unremarked courage of many ordinary French men and women who risked their lives to help drive German armies from French soil. And through it all shines her’s quiet courage, a keen sense of humor and, above all, her pure zest for life.
For this new edition, David Hewson, a former regular-army officer interested in military history, adds biographical details for the main characters, identifies the real people behind the code names, and provides background information. He also tells about Anne-Marie Walters’ early life and what happened to her in the postwar years.
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Moondrop to Gascony Audiobook Narrator
Nicola Barber is the narrator of Moondrop to Gascony audiobook that was written by Anne-Marie Walters
Nicola Barber, is an Audie Award and Earphones Award-winning narrator whose voice can be heard in television and radio commercials and popular video games such as World of Warcraft. She is also an Audie finalist in the prestigious category of solo female narrationfor her work on Murphy’s Law by Rhys Bowen and Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth. She has performed on the stage in New York City and at a number of top regional theaters in the United States. Her film and television roles include The Nanny Diaries with Scarlett Johansson, and Law & Order’s 2009 season premiere. Originally from England, she currently resides in New York, a multicultural background that enables her to bring a broad range of accents and characterizations to her role as a full-time voice-over actor.
About the Author(s) of Moondrop to Gascony
Anne-Marie Walters is the author of Moondrop to Gascony
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Moondrop to Gascony Full Details
| Narrator | Nicola Barber |
| Length | 9 hours 41 minutes |
| Author | Anne-Marie Walters |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 23, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781504750455 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Moondrop to Gascony is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Military
Additional info
The publisher of the Moondrop to Gascony is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781504750455.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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