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On a wintry, moonlit nighttime in January 1944, Anne-Marie Walters, just twenty years old, parachuted into southwest France to work with the Resistance in prep for the long-awaited Allied invasion. The princess of a British isles father and a French mom, she was to act as a courier for George Starr, brain of the "Wheelwright" circuit of the Special Businesses Executive. Over another seven weeks, Walters crisscrossed the spot, carrying messages, providing explosives, planning the break free of downed airmen, and acquiring parachute drops of forearms and staff in the inactive of nighttime - moving into constant fear of shoot and torture by the Gestapo. Then, on the eve of liberation, she was directed off on foot on the Pyrenees to Spain, holding immediate dispatches for London. Anne-Marie Walters wrote Moondrop to Gascony soon after the war, as the occasions were still vibrant in her brain. It is a tale of high experience, comradeship and kindness, of betrayals and appalling atrocities, and of the often unremarked courage of several ordinary French women and men who risked their lives to help drive German armies from French earth. And through everything shines her noiseless courage, her keen sense of humor, and, above all, her clean zest forever. Because of this new model, David Hewson, a past regular-army officer enthusiastic about military history, gives biographical details for the primary characters, identifies the true people behind the code labels, and provides track record information. He also explains to about Anne-Marie Walters' early on life and what took place to her in the postwar years.
