Credit: AP A close friend confirmed Ms Wake's death early today. This miniseries event begins in 1939 when Nancy meets Henri Fiocca, while she is working on assignment as a journalist in Marseilles. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was a ‘Special Operations Executive’ agent of the British at the time of the ‘Second World War’ and among the most wanted spies by the ‘Gestapo’. She spent her childhood in Sydney and after her studies she traveled to Europe where she worked as a journalist. In Nazi Germany she saw the rise of Adolf Hitler and Anti-Semitism.On one occasion in Vienna she witnessed Jews being whipped by members of the Sturm Abteilung (SA). Nancy Wake was far from a damsel in distress, and by the end of the war was number one on the Gestapo's Most Wanted list. With Noni Hazlehurst, John Waters, Randall Berger, Richard Boué.

Nancy Wake tells the true story of Australia's greatest war heroine - the woman the Gestapo dubbed the 'White Mouse'. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake AC GM (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011) served as a British agent during the later part of World War II.She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Nancy Wake, who as a spy became one the Allies' most decorated servicewomen for her role in the French … Nancy Wake, who died on August 7 aged 98, was “White Mouse”, and among the most decorated secret agents of the Second World War.

'White Mouse' ... Nancy Wake, pictured here in 2004, has died. Biography - A Short WikiBritish Agent who led the maquis groups of the French Resistance, and was one of the most decorated servicewomen of World War II. Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 30th August, 1912.The family moved to Australia in 1914 and after being educated in Sydney she travelled to Europe where she worked as a journalist. Trained in hand-to-hand combat, espionage, sabotage, and able to drink her male counterparts under the table, she was known as one of the most fearsome resistance fighters during WWII. The ‘Gestapo’ who called Wake ‘The White Mouse’, declared a price of 5 million-franc on her head. During the second world war, the servicewoman Nancy Wake, who has died aged 98, became known as "the White Mouse", a nickname given to her by the Gestapo for her elusiveness.
Tributes have flowed in the hours that followed.

Sadly, their marriage ended with Fiocca was executed by the Nazis.

She married for a second time in 1957 to John Forward. She seemed to always be traveling for her glam lifestyle, but really she was a courier between resistance pockets, and used fake names on the road. The couple stayed married until his death in 1997. Nancy Wake died on August 7, 2011, in London, England.

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was born Aug. 30, 1912, in Wellington, New Zealand, the youngest of six children.
Death. Her father, a journalist, left the family …