Code name Verity
Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the …
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- Full title :Code name Verity / Elizabeth Wein.
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Code Name Verity is a compelling, emotionally rich story with universal themes of friendship and loyalty, heroism and bravery. Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II: one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France. She is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in "Verity's" own words, as she writes her account for her captors.
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- Publication Date:2012.
- Edition:1st Hyperion books hardcover ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hyperion Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:343 pages ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781423152194, 1423152190, 9781423152880, 1423152883
- oclc:ocn820729333
- LC Classification:PZ7.W4358
- Dewey Decimal:[Fic]
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