Description
During WWII, England’s Special Operations Executive recruited 52 brave women to go behind German lines in France to work with the French Resistance on intelligence gathering, sabotage, and harassment of the German Army. They were a widely diverse group of women who all had the goal of freeing France from German occupation. One of those women, Nancy Wake, was brave, tough, flirtatious, and very effective. Pedace will discuss the group, focusing on Nancy Wake.
Donna Pedace is the author of Women Warriors-The Hidden Spies of WWII. She is the past executive director of the Eugene O’Neill Theater and Museum in Connecticut and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society Museum in Santa Fe. She was also the national director of Oasis, working with founder Marylen Mann to open and operate new Oasis centers from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Our Albuquerque center was the last center she opened before leaving Oasis and moving to the East Coast.