Nancy Wake Codename: The White Mouse

It's difficult to praise the heroism of Nancy Wake enough. Imagine the difficulty of earning the respect of 7,000 hardened, male, French resistance fighters!

At one point, Nancy let her men into battle against 40,000 seasoned Nazi troops and kicked their ass! Read more about this heroine, you'll be amazed.

Her WWII comrade, Henri Tardivat, described his guerrilla chieftain as, "The most feminine woman I know, until the fighting starts. Then, she is like five men."

One of the great women of that era.