Fall From Grace

by Larry Collins

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Recounts the mission of Caroline, whose task it is to protect the security of the Normandy invasion by convincing the Germans that the real landing would be at Pas de Calais.

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Catherine Pradier, a highly intelligent and very beautiful woman of half French, half British parentage, wanted very much to do something to actively serve both her countries. Her godfather, a British peer, was able to pull the necessary strings to grant her wish. He would never have done so had Catherine not possessed tremendous strength of character and courage. Catherine was trained to be "dropped" into Occupied France and assist in the sabotage of France's German-run arms industry and cause as much chaos behind German lines as possible. At best, she could hope to do her job successfully. Worse case scenario, she would be captured, tortured and killed or deported to a German concentration camp. The British government's position was show more clear, "Women are entitled to join in the defense of our common beliefs as are men. The war is total, not restricted to men alone." And, in fact, women were better able to move around Occupied France than men. They were less suspect and they couldn't be swept off the streets and shipped to Germany for forced labor. Catherine's job was to function as radio operator and courier for a French resistance chief. The contact who first meets Catherine when her Lysander plane lands in a French field is an agent, code name Paul. His history of espionage and counter espionage is too complicated to do justice to here. The two are immediately drawn to each other, but clearly their professional duties and obligation to their country come before everything else. show less
Mediante el plan "Fortitude" los aliados pretenden engañar a los Alemanes sobre el desembarco de tropas en el continente Europeo. En plena Segunda Guerra mundial, Catherine Pradier, una joven inglesa criada en francia, siente la necesidad de colaborar en la lucha contra el nazismo. Reclutada por Cavendish, jefe de los servicios de espionaje britanicos, Catherine viaja hasta Francia con la misión de actuar como mensajera para los aliados. En el trayecto hacia París, la chica conoce a Paul, joven piloto francés sinconvicciones politicas y un gran espiritu aventurero. Catherine y Paul se convierten en amantes, ignorando la joven la autentica identidad de su amigo: Paul es un espia doble, que trabaja a la vez para Inglaterra y para show more Strömelburg, uno de los jefes del espionaje alemán en París. Catherine consigue introducirse en un cuartel de la Gestapo como lavandera; allí averigua varios secretos y regresa mas tarde con la información a Inglaterra. Henry Ridley, otro jefe de los servicios britanicos de espionaje, pide a Catherine que vuelva a Francia para una arriesgada misión. show less
1944. Les Alliés s’apprêtent à lancer sur les plages normandes la plus formidable opération militaire de tous les temps. Pour le succès du jour J, il faut impérativement convaincre Hitler et l’état major allemand que le débarquement de Normandie n’est qu’une diversion et que, en réalité, le vrai débarquement aura lieu dans le Pas-de-Calais, trois jours plus tard. C’est l’objectif de l’opération ultra-secrète Fortitude. Fortitude est à la fois un grand roman d’aventures et le récit de cet épisode passionnant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Une histoire haletante, faite d’amour et d’héroïsme, de sacrifices et de trahisons, qui mêle admirablement la fiction à la réalité. Best-seller mondial, show more Fortitude est aujourd’hui un grand film diffusé sur TFl pour la commémoration du débarquement. show less
La historia de Garbo y la forma de engañar a los alemanes respecto al desembarco de Normandía
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Invazní vylodění spojeneckých vojsk v západní Evropě vyžadovalo důkladné zpravodajské krytí, jehož cílem bylo zmást německé vrchní velení a vnutit mu mylnou představu o místě vylodění angloamerických vojsk ve Francii. Součástí tohoto plánu byla i operace Fortitude.

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Canonical title
Fall From Grace
Original title
Fortitude
Original publication date
1985
Dedication
To Nadia
First words
To small details gave the black Opel away to the trained eye.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Only the ashes know.

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Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3553 .O47487 .F613Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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