Code Name Verity |
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Author:
| Wein, Elizabeth |
Read by:
| Gaskell, Lucy Christie, Morven |
ISBN: | 978-1-74318-545-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Publisher: | Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
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Book Format: | Pre-recorded MP3 player |
List Price: | USD $44.99 |
Book Description:
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Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and...
More DescriptionCode Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then 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.