num_pages: 250
description: A true story of espionage, adventure and love against the odds during the darkest days of the Second World War. When Claude Peri and Madeleine Bayard meet in Indochina in the 1930s, they fall immediately and passionately in love. They are soulmates, and not only lovers - each works as a spy for the French government. Claude travels alone through Hitler's Germany (where he is invited to dinner with Hermann Goering), the Middle East, India and Thailand. Then, travelling together to Paris in 1939, Claude and Madeleine are appalled as they watch their countrymen flee the capital in terror as the German army advances upon it in June of the following year. 'Claude and Madeleine' tells how, aboard their beloved ship Le Rhin, they abandon their allegiance to France and throw in their lot with the British.
language: English
title: Claude and Madeleine: A True Story of Love, War and Espionage
titlecomplete: Claude and Madeleine: A True Story of Love, War and Espionage
genres: World War II
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Picador