NOT JUST ANY WOMAN
MADAME FOURCADE’S SECRET WAR
The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
By Lynne Olson. 464 pp. Random House, 2019. $30.
IN JULY 1944, the Gestapo pushed in Marie-Madeleine Fourcade’s door while hunting for French Resistance spies. They shoved her aside, ransacking her apartment for information about an important member, the same proves true of men on all sides of World War II. And until recently, suggests author Lynne Olson, true of the rest of us as well.
