Avenue of spies
Subtitle: a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
By: Alex Kershaw
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780804194853
Subjects: Physicians; Family; Military History; Spies; Americans; Biography; World War, 1939-1945; Underground movements; Espionage; History
Description: The true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordinarily high. They would be risking not only their own lives but that of their only child, twelve-year-old Phillip. Toquette agreed to allow the Goelette network of the resistance to use their home as a drop box for vital information en route to Britain. As D-Day neared, the noose began to tighten.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-395) and index.