{"id":1625,"date":"2012-12-18T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:50:11","slug":"code-name-verity-by-elizabeth-wein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1644\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Code-Name-Verity.jpg\" alt=\"Code Name Verity\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Verity was a passenger in British spy plane that was shot down over Nazi-occupied France.\u00a0 When she looked the wrong way before crossing the street, and almost got hit by a van, she was picked up by the Gestapo.\u00a0 In order to get Verity to reveal her mission and any other pertinent information about the British war effort, the Gestapo subjected her to a wide variety of tortures.\u00a0 Verity\u2019s confession gives an account of both what she endured and what she told the Gestapo, but it never explains whether it is completely truthful or if it contains any lies.\u00a0 Compounding this confusion, of course, is the inclusion of this quote in the beginning of the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Passive resisters must understand that they are as important as saboteurs.\u2019<br \/>\nSOE Secret Operations Manual<br \/>\n\u2018Methods of Passive Resistance\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only by reading the second half of the book, told from the perspective of Verity\u2019s pilot friend Maddie, can readers ascertain the truth.\u00a0 This would be a good story for you if you want to learn more about some of the lesser-known facets of WWII, enjoy suspenseful stories, and appreciate heart-wrenching tales of friendship and devotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verity was a passenger in British spy plane that was shot down over Nazi-occupied France.\u00a0 When she looked the wrong way before crossing the street, and almost got hit by a van, she was picked up by the Gestapo.\u00a0 In order to get Verity to reveal her mission and any other pertinent information about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}