After reading the description of The Last Secret Agent
by authors Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson, I wanted to read this story about
the last female British secret agent in WWII.
This memoir is a fascinating and gripping account of Pippa
Latour’s early life and her experiences as a British female operative who was
dropped behind enemy lines in France during WWII. Pippa’s early life and experiences uniquely
equipped and developed her character to be well-suited for the work she would
sign-up for in her early 20’s.
I never knew that women were used as secret agents and
deployed in war zones. It was
interesting to read about her training and the dangerous work she engaged in to
transmit information on Germany’s troop movements back to Britian. The dangers that these operatives encountered
in the battle against Nazi Germany is almost unimaginable. The life span of the operatives behind enemy
lines was short. They had a greater
chance of being taken captive, tortured, and murdered than coming out alive. The courage that Pippa displayed, along with
the men and women like her, who served their county and the Allied Nations is
awe-inspiring.
We owe a great debt to the men and women fought in the
critical battle against the great evil that Hitler’s Germany unleashed on the
free-world.
Pippa Latour’s recollections were beautifully recorded, researched
and written by writer Jude Dobson. This
is an excellent memoir about an extraordinary woman who lived in a unique and
critical time in history. I highly
recommend The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour with author
Jude Dobson.
I would like to thank St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley
for the opportunity to read a complimentary copy of The Last Secret Agent
by Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson.
I was under no obligation to give a favorable review.
