Nancy Wake, ‘White Mouse’ of World War II, dies at 98
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The Gestapo called her "The White Mouse" for the way she deftly avoided their traps.
Nancy Wake, 98, who died of an infection Aug. 7 in London, was one of the most effective and cunning British agents working in German-occupied France during World War II.
A sultry glamour girl before the war, she married a French playboy industrialist whose tastes, like hers, ran to caviar and champagne midmorning and love in the afternoon. They were living in southern France when the war ignited.
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