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The Nurse Who Became a Spy Chris Hall

The Nurse Who Became a Spy von Chris Hall

The Nurse Who Became a Spy Chris Hall


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Zusammenfassung

Madge Addy was a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, her story is a truly remarkable one.

The Nurse Who Became a Spy Zusammenfassung

The Nurse Who Became a Spy: Madge Addy's War Against Fascism Chris Hall

The life story of Madge Addy, a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, is a truly remarkable one. Madge left her job and her husband to serve in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse with the Republican medical services. In Spain she was wounded in a bombing raid, fell in love with another foreign volunteer who became her second husband, was made a Prisoner of War and was the last British nurse to leave Spain, witnessing the horrors of Franco's Fascist regime before she left. She was caught up in the 'Fall of France' and lived in Marseille with her Norwegian husband. From 1940 to 1944 Madge was first an amateur resister and later a full-time secret agent, working with the likes of Ian Garrow, Pat O'Leary and Guido Zembsch-Schreve. She also acted as a courier, flying to Lisbon to deliver and receive secret messages from British intelligence. She also became romantically involved with a Danish secret agent and married him after the war. Madge's wartime achievements were recognised by the British with the award of an OBE and by the French with the award of the Croix de Guerre. Chris Hall brings Madge's story to life using archive material and photographs from Britain, France, Spain and Norway. Madge's Spanish Civil War experiences are vividly described in a mass of letters she wrote requesting medical aid and describing the harrowing conditions at her wartime hospital. Her activities in the Second World War show a woman with 'nerves of steel' and a bravery at times bordering on recklessness. As she herself said, 'I believe in taking the war into the enemy camp'.

Über Chris Hall

Chris Hall is a librarian and an expert on military history and the Spanish Civil War, who has studied at the Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria and Manchester Metropolitan. His previous published works include Orwell and his fellow British and Irish volunteers and interviews with men who fought in the International Brigades in Spain's civil war.

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GOR012213029
9781526779588
1526779587
The Nurse Who Became a Spy: Madge Addy's War Against Fascism Chris Hall
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd
20210723
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