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ES31c Marie Claire cover Signed Mary Lindell Comtesse de Milleville WW2 Resistance M19. 11 X 1983 Paris Reseau Marie Claire Cover depicts Mary Lindell headquarters of Reseau in WW11. Personally Signed by Mary Lindell OBE Comtesse de Milleville MI9 was a British born heroine of the French Resistance in the Second War. Codename Marie Claire she headed the Resistance organisation at Lyons where she ran an Escape route out of occupied France for Allied airmen, Soldiers and refugees. In 1942 she smuggled the only two survivors of the celebrated Cockleshell Heroes Major Blondle Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks out of France to Spain following their successful raid on German Blockade running ships to Bordeaux. This Commando mission was described by Mountbatten as one of the most courageous and imaginative operations of the Second World War. 1943 arrested by the Gestapo at Pau railway station in November., The Gestapo were reasonably sure that they had caught the notorious Comtesse de Milleville alias Maries - Claire. After interrogation at Biarritz she attempted a escape during the journey to Paris by attempting to leap from the train. She was shot in the head and through her cheek by a guard taken to a hospital in Tours, where a German surgeon saved her life. She was frequently imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo. Finally in 1944 and thrown into the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women at Ravensbruck near Berlin where as she later put it conditions were pretty dim for the general public. Mary Lindell died in 1986 aged 92. Full details enclosed and. 2 photo's enclosed. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99