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The code name verity5/18/2023 Julie becomes a translator for secret interrogations, or so Maddie thinks. Maddie becomes a pilot with the Special Operations Executive, or SOE-the actual SOE originated in London in 1940, using houses as headquarters, and soon expanded to an all-volunteer force of men and women, who secretly warred against Hitler and his armies. Because of their talents, both women are eventually marked for secret work. The two women meet in 1938 during their war work as radio operators and soon become best friends. In explaining what she knows about the British war effort, particularly their air force, Julie begins telling the story of her best friend, Margaret “Maddie” Brodatt, a pilot. She is given two weeks to write her confession, after which she will be executed or sent to a concentration camp. She has suffered extreme and terrible tortures. From the beginning, she confesses that she is a coward, and that she is going to tell the Nazis everything she knows to avoid further interrogation. In epistolary form, she writes her “confession,” laying out all she knows of the British war effort, in exchange for better treatment. The first part of the novel takes place in November of 1943 and is narrated by Verity, aka Julie Beaufort-Stuart, a Scottish aristocrat and spy, currently being held by the Nazis in Ormaie-a fictional city in Nazi-occupied France.
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