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The amazing true history of English special realtors Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to battle for freedom through the Second World Warfare. When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne perished, few suspected that the silent little old woman was a furnished WW II warfare hero. Volunteering to provide for British cleverness at age 21, Eileen was submitted to Nazi-occupied France to send encoded announcements of crucial importance for the Allies, until her catch by the Gestapo. Eileen had not been the one agent in her family - her sister Jacqueline was a courier for the French level of resistance. While Jacqueline narrowly averted arrest, Eileen was tortured by the Nazis, then delivered to the infamous Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. Astonishingly, this resourceful young female eventually escaped her captors and found her way to the advancing American army. In this amazing true history of triumph and tragedy, Susan Ottaway unveils the secret lives of two sisters who sacrificed themselves to defend their country.