WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy Was A Woman—And A Hero

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 2:07 p.m.

Odette Sansom, Code Name: Lise, was the most highly decorated spy in World War 2. Seven women were trained as spies by the SEO (British intelligence), and six of them were executed by the Nazis. Sansom was interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo more than a dozen times, but she never gave up her friends. Learn all about this fascinating historical figure in CODE NAME: LISE by Larry Loftis, coming soon to bookstores!