Historical person
Mary Lindell
1895–1987
Mary Lindell was a British-born nurse who lived for many years in France and became involved in escape and Resistance work during the Second World War. She helped Allied servicemen evade German forces and move through clandestine routes, operating in a field in which capture exposed agents and helpers to imprisonment, torture and execution.
Mary Lindell was a British-born nurse and Resistance worker who helped Allied servicemen escape from occupied France and worked with MI9. Mary Lindell was born in Sutton, London, England and died in Paris, France.
Helen Fry’s Mi9 follows resistance members, guides, safe-house keepers and intelligence officers whose work linked individual escapes into a transnational organisation. Figures such as Airey Neave and Mary Lindell appear within the documented history of MI9 and its associated escape lines. Fry draws on declassified files and eyewitness testimony to show that celebrated escapes depended on a much larger infrastructure of agents and civilians. In Helen Fry’s Women in Intelligence, Women such as Mary Lindell appear as documented historical participants rather than fictional archetypes.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Mary Lindell (2 books)
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