In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization⁠—the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group's name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah's Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their aliases. This is a dramatic account of the war that split France in two and forced its people to live side by side with their hated German occupiers, where Lynne Olson tells the fascinating story of a woman who stood up for her nation, her fellow citizens, and herself.