02221cam a2200349 i 4500 567522309 TxAuBib 20220810120000.0 220628s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022021438 9781541700666 HRD 32.00 154170066X HRD 32.00 TxAuBib rda Lewis, Damien, author. Agent Josephine [BOOK] : American beauty, French hero, British spy / Damian Lewis. First US edition. New York : PublicAffairs, 2022. xxvi, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-452) and index. Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the highest-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all “negroes and Jews.” Yet instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight, she went from performer to Resistance spy. In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer’s life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers—a cover for her spying work—Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served—the US, France, and Britain. Provided by publisher. 20220810. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975. Women spies Great Britain Biography. African American women dancers France Biography. World War, 1939-1945 African Americans France Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Women France Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements. Biographies.