“The people who kind of obsess about these stories, they are not happy to give a voice to women’s stories,” says Rose, who also scoured declassified military files and interviewed veterans as part of her research. It was much harder facing the misogyny perpetuated within the WWII community. Although learning how to jump out of a plane, Rose admits, was the easy part. She moved to France, built radios, attended boot camps and even took a parachuting lesson. Rose took up similar skills as part of her research. The same can be said of the book’s primary protagonists : Andrée Borrel, described as “a scrappy and streetwise Parisian,” disillusioned housewife Odette Sansom, and Lise de Baissac, the SOE’s “unflappable queen,” all of whom learned how to parachute out of planes, concoct false identities and communicate via Morse code, for starters. “And all of these women are hardcore and tough as nails, but they’re feminine, they’re flirty, and they’re super-accomplished and confident.” Joe, masculine vision of what the military is,” says Rose. Rose has long been fascinated by the idea of women in the military - partially because she knows women who serve, and partially because they defy patriarchal notions of what it means to be female. Inside the VIP Tent at the 2023 Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic
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