In October 1942, Odette Sansom, a housewife turned British spy, was holed up on Gibraltar waiting for passage to Nazi-occupied France to begin her mission. She had left her three daughters at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

With evident sympathy, Loftis (Into the Lion’s Mouth) tells a well-researched, novelistic story of a heroine and patriot whose face recently graced a postage stamp in the U.K. This exciting portrait ...

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 ...

Orlando author Larry Loftis received rave notices Friday from NBC’s “Today,” which explored his new book, “Code Name: Lise.” “This is a great book,” NBC reporter Stephanie Gosk said in starting her ...