They appeared from out of the shadows, and suddenly you felt that you had always known them. The connection formed by a threat to one’s country is the strongest connection of all. People adopt one another, march together. Only capture or death can tear them apart.

—Marie-Madeleine Fourcade

Fact had outpaced fiction in producing the copybook “beautiful spy.” This was Marie-Madeleine.

—Commander Kenneth Cohen, MI6 official in charge of French intelligence operations during World War II