'I have two weeks. You'll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.' • Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Code Name Verity is a bestselling tale of friendship and courage set against the backdrop of World War Two • Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a special operations executive. When a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France, she is captured by the Gestapo and becomes a prisoner of war. The story begins in ‘Verity’s’ own words, as she writes her account for her captors • Truth or lies? Honour or betrayal? Everything they’ve ever believed in is put to the test … • Elizabeth Wein is a leading voice in young adult historical fiction
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