The new book “Code Name: Lise” details the heroism of Odette Sansom, World War II’s most decorated spy. Few people have heard her story, so NBC’s Stephanie Gosk sat down with the book’s author and ...

Code Name: Lise By Larry Loftis. (Gallery Books, 360 pages, $27.) When she was inserted into France during World War II, her code name was Lise. Her real name was Odette Sansom, and she was about as ...

Odette Sansom had been a prisoner of the Gestapo for five months by October 1943. All of her toenails had been ripped from her feet. She was subsisting on just one slice of bread and a bowl of soup ...

Despite unimaginable torture by the Nazis, imprisonment in concentration camps and uncertainty over the fate of her lover and fellow spy, Allied agent Odette Sansom never betrayed the clandestine ring ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Larry Loftis is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2019 Speech. Larry Loftis talked about his book, Code Name: Lise: The True ...