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Jackdaws

Jackdaws

Author(s): Ken Follett

Location(s): France

Genre(s): Historical, Thriller

Era(s): End of WW2

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Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications – but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously.

Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the ‘Jackdaws’ and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise. But, unknown to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick’s trail…

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Really captures how I imagine the years of Resistance must have been like. Good story.

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