{"id":60354,"date":"2019-11-06T18:51:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60354"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:24:24","slug":"d-day-girls","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/d-day-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Day Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">D-Day Girls<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section><div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"258f889ad08df1b1616f7d1b94775497\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR6ec31a55da80f102173adb6a9d74c973\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR6ec31a55da80f102173adb6a9d74c973\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR6ec31a55da80f102173adb6a9d74c973\" data-pagination='{\"id\":\"61885\",\"query\":\"normal\",\"type\":\"disabled\",\"effect\":\"fade\",\"duration\":500,\"speed\":5,\"pause_on_hover\":\"enabled\",\"stop_rollover\":\"false\",\"cache_pages\":\"enabled\",\"preload_images\":\"enabled\",\"preload_pages\":\"enabled\",\"preload_reach\":1,\"spinner\":\"builtin\",\"spinner_image\":\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif\",\"callback_next\":\"\",\"manage_history\":\"enabled\",\"has_controls_in_form\":\"disabled\",\"infinite_tolerance\":\"0\",\"max_pages\":1,\"page\":1,\"base_permalink\":\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60354?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR6ec31a55da80f102173adb6a9d74c973&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM\",\"loop\":{\"type\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"data\":[],\"id\":0}}' data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60354?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR6ec31a55da80f102173adb6a9d74c973\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: January 28, 2020<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Chancellor's Village Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives, D-Day Girls\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/387996752?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_D-Day-Girls-195x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_D-Day-Girls-195x300.jpg 195w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_D-Day-Girls-768x1179.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_D-Day-Girls-667x1024.jpg 667w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_D-Day-Girls-742x1140.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\"><p>In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed Britain was locked in an existential battle and created a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharp-shooting. Their job, he declared, was &ldquo;to set Europe ablaze!&rdquo; But with most men on the frontlines, the SOE did something unprecedented: it recruited women. Thirty-nine women answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France. Half were caught, and a third did not make it home alive. <\/p>\n<p>Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the story of three of these women. There&rsquo;s Odette Sansom, a young mother who feels suffocated by domestic life and sees the war as her ticket out; Lise de Baissac, an unflappable aristocrat with the mind of a natural leader; and Andr&eacute;e Borrel, the streetwise organizer of the Paris Resistance. Together, they derailed trains, blew up weapons caches, destroyed power and phone lines, and gathered crucial intelligence&mdash;laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Sarah Rose<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_Sarah-Rose-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_Sarah-Rose-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_Sarah-Rose-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Jan28_Sarah-Rose-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\">\n<p>Sarah Rose is a journalist and bestselling author of <cite>D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis and Helped Win World War II,<\/cite> and <cite>For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World&rsquo;s Favorite Drink and Changed History.<\/cite> She was a news columnist at the Wall Street Journal, and her features have appeared in Outside, The Washington Post, The New York Post, Travel + Leisure, Bon Appetit, The Saturday Evening Post, and Men&rsquo;s Journal. Sarah is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[592],"class_list":{"0":"post-60354","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-592","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>D-Day Girls - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Author Sarah Rose speaks at the University of Mary Washington&#039;s Great Lives Series on her book, D-Day Girls.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/d-day-girls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"D-Day Girls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Author Sarah Rose speaks at the University of Mary Washington&#039;s Great Lives Series on her book, D-Day Girls.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/d-day-girls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T14:24:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/d-day-girls\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/d-day-girls\\\/\",\"name\":\"D-Day Girls - 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