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Code Name Verity

Code Name Verity

Author(s): Elizabeth Wein

Location(s): France

Genre(s): Young Adult

Era(s): WW2, 1940s

‘I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.’

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Code Name Verity is a bestselling tale of friendship and courage set against the backdrop of World War Two.

Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. When 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.

Truth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they’ve ever believed in is put to the test…

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