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The London Spymaker: A Riveting WW2 Historical Saga of Espionage, Love & Betrayal. Inspired by a real story. (A Resistance Girl Novel Book 7) Kindle Edition

by Hannah Byron (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 321 ratings

Inspired by a true story and featuring the last “resistance girl from the Swiss finishing school”, ‘The London Spymaker’ weaves together espionage, betrayal, and passion against the backdrop of World War II, delivering a gripping tale of resilience and secrets.

London, 1942

Meet Anna Adams, the stoical spymistress of Baker Street Headquarters, as she navigates the web of secrecy, love, and duty. It is her job to recruit the female secret agents that will be sent behind enemy lines in France.

While concealing her identity and origins, Anna’s world takes an unexpected turn when the Polish fighter pilot Major Henryk “Hubal” Pilecki reenters her life. Her undeniable feelings for her former boyfriend complicate Anna’s life further as she is supposed to marry the very British Count Roderick Macalister so that all traces of her past are permanently erased.

Torn between love and duty, Anna makes a heart-breaking choice that leads to catastrophe. Everything goes wrong at Baker Street HQ and one after the other her female agents disappear without a trace.

As the war ends, Anna embarks on a quest to post-War Germany to uncover the fates of the women she sent to their deaths, all the while confronting her own troubled past and mysterious protector.

The London Spymaker is the harrowing WW2 story of a broken-hearted woman who balances the fine line between political decency and personal secrecy.

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    A Resistance Girl Novel
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  4. Publication date
    April 2, 2024
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Reviewer quote Transports me to another time... a time not unfamiliar with the atrocities of war because it has been promised to never forget. "Lest we Forget". Brings to a close the stories of the remarkable Resistance Girls. They reinforce the dream of lasting peace and no more war. The first one in a series about female SOE agents. Telling the story of Lise de Baissac, the sacrifices made at such great personal risk, are truly inspiring. Loved the first book. Already preordered this one.
Can't miss scene Rows of men dressed in black, waving National Socialist banners. "After Kristallnacht we moved from Austria to Norway thinking we would be safe." But with every cycle of her wheels, the enemy closed in as well. The tension of the occupation followed her like her own shadow. This is it, she thought, her mind unexpectedly calm and clear. But they won’t win. I’ve held out. I’ve done what I was trained to do. I betrayed no other agent.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C9VQZJN2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hannah Byron Books; 1st edition (April 2, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 2, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.4 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9083089258
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Hannah Byron is an acclaimed author of historical fiction centered on WWII resistance women. Born in Paris in the mid-1950s to a British mother and a Dutch father, she grew up with strong ties to France, the UK, and Holland, which continue to inspire her work. Most of her novels are set in Western Europe, where history and culture run deep.

After decades of balancing life as a mother, university professor, and translator, Hannah is now a full-time author. She writes passionate novels about resistance and romance set in the 20th century—topics close to her heart. Readers often describe Byron’s work as gripping, deeply emotional, and impossible to put down.

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  • Nancy De Napoli
    5.0 out of 5 stars The book is fantastic.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
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    I love it. I have read all of Hannah Byron's Resistance Girl Series and I am never disappointed. I eagerly look forwar.d to the last and final book of the series coming in July. The books are so good that I will read them again
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  • Virginia New Yorker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Young Polish woman escapes Germany to become SOE recruiter
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
    This was an immersive book which begins in the years right before World War ii, when Ansel Grynszpan is a teenager living with her parents and small sisters in Hannover, Germany. That is covered in the prologue, and the story, then set in 1945, moves to post-war Germany when Ansel, now Anna Adams, WAAF, briefly attends the opening of the Nuremberg trials.

    From there, Anna’s life story is pieced together in non-time sequenced sections, and the reader learns that before World War II begins in earnest, Anna’s Polish Jewish family is uprooted by the Nazis and sent to the border with Poland where they are forced to live in a tent in the harsh winter cold. Although attended by kind nuns, the family faces much hardship and tragedy, but is eventually rescued and flown to England by a brave Polish pilot, Major Henryk Pilecki.

    Anna’s Uncle Benjamin, her mother’s half-brother, helps the family resettle in England, helps Anna to get an education and her father to set up in business. As time proceeds, Anna begins work at the SOE and as she advances, gains responsibility and recruits female agents to work in France.

    I won’t go into the twists and turns of the story, as they are many and intriguing, except to say that after the war Anna is in the War Crimes Investigation and tries to locate the SOE agents based in France who have not returned. This is a novel aspect among WWII historical fiction and quite interesting. Some who survive are severely traumatized.

    A mild criticism is that despite the excellent story lines, the non-consecutive story line and reappearance of characters occasionally confused me. Still, this is an excellent book presenting novel aspects of the WWII historical fiction entries
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  • Jbarr5
    5.0 out of 5 stars London Spymaker
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
    The London Spymaker: A Riveting WW2 Historical Saga of Espionage, Love & Betrayal. Based on a real story. (A Resistance Girl Novel Book 7) by Hannah Byron
    This story starts out with Ansel and she's the oldest girl in the family. Her mother, father and twin girls made up the whole family. They are Jewish but able to stay safe for a while but need to get to a safer location.
    They have bare necessities and end up in the field between Germany and Poland. The nuns help them survive. No food, very cold and there is much death. They finally get a way out, by flying to England to her mothers brother that lives there. He is quite wealthy and takes them in. He has plans for Ansel. First they all get new names. Her father opens a book shop, and her uncle trades in diamonds with many nearby countries.
    She ends up spending time with the pilot that brought them there but she's only 16. She was able to be sent to the finishing school in Switzerland where she meets and befriends Pearlie. They form a lifelong bond.
    She gets a job where she interviews women who want to help fight the war in France. They are trained and she notes where they'd be the best asset in the campaign.
    She is in the bunkers under the city but she is also considering marrying the well to do man but she fears he's too much of a playboy for her. He has her life in his hands when he tells her of his plans She devotes her time to the SOE and even after interrogating others during the war crime trials to find out more information about the agents she sent off the fight in France. Anna learns what happened to them all. The war does end along with all the threats made to her life. She has important papers that allow her to travel where she needs to go. Just one last mission for her...
    Never saw it ending as such, very powerful, emotional, lots of travel, love lullaby’s translated into English, entertaining learning about the struggles, hardships, tragedies and death and how they survived and why.
    This book by the author is the best out of the whole series, so detailed descriptions, something just connected with me in this read to keep it one of my top 5 books this year.
    A KEEPER!
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  • Falmouth
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Jewish, German born woman is the Spy Master in London
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
    This is the 7th book in the Resistance Girl series. It can be read without having read previous books in the series. While previous books had women fighting with the resistance in the midst of the enemies, this book has Anna, a German born, non-religious Jewish woman, working as a spy master in London. She is personally responsible for selecting women for their roles as undercover resistance fighters. She and her family fled the Nazis early and they suffered terribly in a refugee camp, until they settled in London. There, the family misfortunes continued. But Anna, with her superior intelligence and work ethic toiled throughout the war and then sought information on her missing agents and built cases against the Nazi war criminals.

    The story does move between time periods, but the chapters are cleanly identified with the time period. The reader should have no problem with the time period changes.

    This is another well researched and touching story of World War II and the bravery of the men and women who supported and participated in the resistance.
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  • Stacey Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars The London Spymaker
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
    I was privileged to be part of the ARC team for Hannah Byron's 7th book in the Resistance Girl Series, The London Spymaker.
    The Story of Anna Adam's , from a little Jewish girl forced out of her home with her family, landing in a camp outside of Poland , with loss of family , to arriving in London to her uncles home, Anna's story is riveting and will keep you reading til the end.
    Once in London Anna story unfolds during WW2 in the early 1940s, her story is one of love, loss, and SOE, where she becomes the Spymaker to play her part in stopping the war!
    If you enjoy historical fiction this is a wonderful story of triumph!
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  • charlene
    5.0 out of 5 stars the london spymaker
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
    A really wonderful book! WWII Historical that is intriguing and heartbreaking. Anna recruits women to go behind enemy lines in France. Lots of twists and turns and tragic events in this unpredictable haunting story make this a real page turner and a must read
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  • Helen Musson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2024
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    Brilliant!
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  • John K
    4.0 out of 5 stars A recommended read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2024
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    The story gives a different angle on a WW2 situation.
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