A review by bet27
A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France by Susan Ottaway

4.0

The book opens with one of the sisters as an elderly woman--unknown, forgotten, overlooked--and goes on to tell the extraordinary lives the two sisters led during WWII and what happened after because of their harrowing experiences. While the writing itself may not be memorable, the story of the two sisters kept me interested throughout. It was sad to see how the women who served could as easily be denigrated or overlooked as praised. Yet even the female SOE officers who "merely" suffered in silence when imprisoned showed incredible courage and strength, whether anyone lauded them or not. You can actually see the older sister in the film "Now It Can Be Told" about SOEs that was released in 1947 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZ15_KoKQc).