Nancy Wake Research Paper

“Freedom is the only thing worth living for. While I was doing that work I used to think it didn’t matter if I died because without freedom there is no point in living”, Nancy Wake says. She was a prominent figure in the French Resistance who ran away from home at the age of sixteen and found work as a nurse, but a windfall enabled her to leave Austria for Europe in 1932. Nancy Wake had siblings, and grew up in New Zealand. Wake settled in Paris working for the Hearst group of newspapers as a journalist. Nancy Wake was a proud World War II fighter for the French Resistance. Nancy Wake was born on August 30, 1912, in Wellington, New Zealand. Nancy Wakes full name was Nancy Grace Augusta Wake. Her mother’s name was Ella Rosier Wake and

There were three girls and two boys.
Their names were, Ruby Wake, Hazel Wake, Charles Wake, Stanley Herbet Kitchener Wake, and Gladlys Wake. Nancy was the youngest of six children. In 1936, she met a Marseilles industrialist named Henri Fiocca, and she married and settled with him in Marseilles three years later. In 1939, when World War II broke out, Wake joined the French Resistance. Wake fled France as the Nazis discovered she was helping Jews escape using an old ambulance she had bought. Wake then left France and the Nazis tortured and killed her husband because he would not betray the activities and whereabouts of his wife. She then re-married John Forward, and they both left Sydney to retire to Port Macquarie. John Forward was a retired Royal Air Force

She was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of Allied Soldiers and downed airmen between 1940 and 1943 by escorting them through occupied France to safety in Spain. She also helped establish communication lines between the British military and French Resistance in 1944. Nancy Wake was also a famous hero because she once killed a German Sentry with her bare hands. Nancy Wake joined the French Resistance as a spy and was given the nickname the “white mouse”. This nickname was given to her for her ability to eclude capture. She was also known as the “white mouse” for her uncanny ability to run rings around the Gestapo in occupied France, In spite of a 5m Franc price on her head. Nancy Wake, the fearless World War II fighter, died in London, on August 7, 2011, at age 98. Her ashes were scattered near the village of Verneix in Central France where she worked with the Resistance, as she had asked for them to do. Nancy Wake died as a fearless World War II Resistance fighter and leader. She had lived in London nursing home for retired veterans since suffering from a heart attack in 2003. Her health deteriorated recently after she was admitted to the hospital with chest infection. After a typical fighting recovery, her condition worsened and she passed away peacefully at the Kingston hospital in London on Sunday, August 7, 2011 at age