The true story of awakening "White Mouse" Nancy has inspired Sebastian Faulks Charlotte Gray 1999 novel on which the film is based. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Mrs. Wake was "a truly remarkable person, whose selfless courage and tenacity not ever be forgotten." Born in New Zealand but raised in Australia, who is credited with helping hundreds of people to flee occupied France by the Allies. Working as a journalist in Europe, met with Adolf Hitler in Vienna in 1933 and pledged to fight against the persecution of the Jews. After the fall of France in 1940, became a French letter Wake resistance and later a saboteur and espionage - the creation of escape routes and the sabotage of German installations, saving hundreds of lives allies. He worked for British special operations and parachuted into France in April 1944 before the big day to deliver arms to French resistance fighters. At one point she was on the list of most wanted by the Gestapo.
"Freedom is the only thing worth living for. When I did this job, I thought, no matter if I died, because without freedom, there was no reason to live," the lady once said of the clock Its use in time of war. Only after the liberation of France, she learned that her husband, French businessman, Henri Fiocca, was tortured and murdered by the Gestapo refused to give him. It was the most decorated woman of Service of Australia, and one decorated with the maids of the Allies of World War II. France awarded him its highest honor, the Legion of Honor, and also received the George Medal for Great Britain and the U.S. Medal of Freedom. In 2004 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. He died in London August 8, 2011 aged 98
"Freedom is the only thing worth living for. When I did this job, I thought, no matter if I died, because without freedom, there was no reason to live," the lady once said of the clock Its use in time of war. Only after the liberation of France, she learned that her husband, French businessman, Henri Fiocca, was tortured and murdered by the Gestapo refused to give him. It was the most decorated woman of Service of Australia, and one decorated with the maids of the Allies of World War II. France awarded him its highest honor, the Legion of Honor, and also received the George Medal for Great Britain and the U.S. Medal of Freedom. In 2004 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. He died in London August 8, 2011 aged 98
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