Monica: Heroine of The Danish Resistance

by Sutherland, Christine

First edition

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New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux,, 1990.. First edition. Hard Back. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST EDITION, STATED FIRST PRINTING. The book is NEAR FINE with small bump to bottom front edge; sticker residue to back paste down. The dust jacket is VERY GOOD with shelf and edge wear. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. Comes with new BRODART jacket cover. 244 pages with index plus 8 pages.black & white photos. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Dust jacket notes read: "AN ENGLISH BEAUTY of high social standing and incredible courage, Monica Massy-Beresford became the heroine of the Danish Resistance during World War II. Condemned to death by the Nazis, she died in Germany a few months before the war's end. Her glamorous and fashionable life was an unusual preparation for her heroic wartime role. Born in London, Monica spent her youth in Ireland. The loss of her favorite brother in 1918 inspired a lifelong hatred of Germans. Having married a Danish aristocrat, Jorgen de Wichfeld, heir to an estate in Lolland, she discovered the family was in financial trouble after their first two children were born. When she turned for help to their neighbor and Jorgen's friend, Kurt von Reventlow, they became lovers. The Wichfelds moved to Italy to live with Monica's widowed mother in her Rapallo villa, and Kurt followed. Monica, now the family bread- winner, started a costume-jewelry and perfume business in Paris. Despite Kurt's plea, she would not abandon her family, so he left and later married Barbara Hutton. As neutral Danes, the Wichfelds had to return to Lolland at the outbreak of war. When the Nazi occupation grew harsher, Monica (without her husband's knowledge) joined the Resistance. She harbored RAF paratroopers and other refugees in their large house and rowed explosives across the lake at dead of night. Her daughter, Inkie, who secretly helped her, later married the Resistance leader. Monica's effective support of the underground, her impressive deportment at her trial, and her example to fellow prisoners made her a national heroine. When the Nazis transported her to Germany, her end was inevitable. Christine Sutherland's most recent book was The Princess of Siberia. In Monica, she has written a moving human document of a fascinating and brave woman.

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