ABSTRACT
Hess, Stephan, and Milton Kaplan, The Ungentlemanly Art: A History o f American Political Cartoons (1968).
Sansom, Odette (1912-1995) British SOE agent. This Frenchwoman was the mother of three children, living in Britain when the war started. Her desire to help her native coun try led to her recruitment by the newly formed Special Operations Executive (q.v.) in 1942. To gether with other women of binational back ground, she was infiltrated into France where she helped resistance circuits to function. She was not particularly effective and was arrested in 1943. Her stoicism in the face of fourteen brutal torture and interrogation sessions at the hands of the Gestapo
(q.v.) led to her fame. She was placed in Ravensbriick concentration camp and survived to become the first woman awarded the George Cross, Britain’s highest decoration for noncombatant heroism.
