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Nancy Wake, World War II's 'White Mouse,' Hid Hundreds of Soldiers

At first glance at a vintage photo of her, she seems to be a movie star from another era. Nancy Wake and her Australian vitality charmed the heir to a giant French shipping fortune into marrying her. She was set to live a life of champagne on the Riviera, when the Nazis moved into France. "I was a young girl full of the joys of spring," she once told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. during a book signing. "I'm irrepressible, I'm boisterous and I love it all." She used that irrepressible...Full Story
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