Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Atwood, Kathryn J.

  Women heroes of World War II : 26 stories of espionage, sabotage, resistance, and rescue / Kathryn J. Atwood.—1st ed.

     p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-1-55652-961-0 (hardcover)

  1. World War, 1939–1945—Women—Biography—Juvenile literature. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Participation, Female—Juvenile literature. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Underground movements—Juvenile literature. I. Title.

D810.W7A85 2011

940.54’850922—dc22

2010041830

Cover and interior design: Sarah Olson
Cover photos: Muriel Phillips and American nurses courtesy Muriel P. Engelman; Andrée de Jongh courtesy Sherri Greene Ottis; Irene Gut from the United States Holocaust Museum; Hannie Schaft from the Hannie Schaft Memorial Foundation; and Nancy Wake from the Australian War Memorial.

Image of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade on page 61 from The Resistance by Russell Miller and the Editors of Time-Life Books; image of Hortense Daman on page 135 from Child at War by Mark Bles. Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders. The editors would welcome information concerning any inadvertent errors or omissions.

© 2011 by Kathryn J. Atwood

All rights reserved First edition

Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

814 North Franklin Street

Chicago, Illinois 60610

ISBN 978-1-55652-961-0

Printed in the United States of America

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