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Nancy Wake
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, The White Mouse, Nancy Fiocca, Madame Fiocca
New Zealander and Australian war heroine
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Great World War II Stories
- Classic Stories of World War II
- The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse
- La Gestapo m'appelait la souris blanche
- The White Mouse
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1981-04
- Active to
- 1995
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10
- Total plays
- 11
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nancy+Wake">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 14,669x
- A More Accurate Method To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine: A New Prediction Equation
· 1999 · cited 12,241x
- Thematic Analysis
· 2017 · cited 10,827x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,814x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I would just look over to the officer, flutter my eyelashes and say ‘Do you want to search moi?’ and they would laugh flirtatiously, ‘No Mademoiselle, you carry on’.”
- “I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”
- “In my opinion, the only good German was a dead German, and the deader, the better. I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Nicknames
- Hélène (SOE), Andrée ( French Resistance /SOE Identity), White Mouse (Gestapo in France)
- Born
- ( 1912-08-30 ) 30 August 1912, Roseneath , Wellington , New Zealand
- Died
- 7 August 2011 (2011-08-07) (aged 98), London, England
- Allegiance
- France, United Kingdom
- Branch
- Special Operations Executive , First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
- Service years
- 1943–1945 (SOE)
- Rank
- Captain
- Unit
- Freelance
- Conflicts
- Second World War
- Awards
- Companion of the Order of Australia , George Medal , Officer of the Legion of Honour (France), Croix de guerre (France), Médaille de la Résistance (France), Medal of Freedom (United States), RSA Badge in Gold (New Zealand)
- Spouses
- Henri Fiocca (d. 1943), John Forward
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Nancy Wake (1945).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1912-08-30
- date of death
- 2011-08-07
- pseudonym
- Andrée
- name in native language
- Nancy Grace Augusta Wake
- Commons category
- Nancy Wake
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
~21 min read
Article
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011), also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry.
The official historian of the SOE, M. R. D. Foot, said that "her irrepressible, infectious, high spirits were a joy to everyone who worked with her." Many stories about her World War II activities come from her autobiography, The White Mouse, and are not verifiable from other sources.