{"product_id":"9781529111293","title":"Victoire : A True Story of Espionage and Resistance in WW2","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carré - aka \"the Cat\" and \"Agent Victoire\" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOccupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the Cat', later known as Agent Victoire - charismatic, daring and a spy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the darkest days for France, yet Mathilde is driven by a sense of destiny that she will be her nation's saviour. Soon, she is at the centre of the first great Allied intelligence network of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as Roland Philipps shows in this extraordinary account of her life, when the Germans close in, Mathilde makes a desperate and dangerous compromise. Nobody - not her German handler, nor the Resistance and the British - can be certain where her allegiances now lie...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Gripping... Enough plot twists and moral ambiguity to satisfy any spy novelist' Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48224132169963,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":34.88,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781529111293-1.jpg?v=1781687804","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781529111293","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}