Sian Rees: Lucie Aubrac [2016] paperback Condition:New At Tar Valon

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Sian Rees: Lucie Aubrac [2016] paperback Condition:New At Tar ValonThe full story of a remarkable woman who has become legendary in the history of the French Resistance. In May 1943, a young Frenchwoman called Lucie Aubrac engineered the escape of her husband Raymond from the clutches of Klaus Barbie, the feared Gestapo chief. When Raymond was arrested again that June, Lucie mounted a second astonishing rescue, ambushing the prison van that was transporting him. Spirited out of France with her husband by the RAF, she