In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman became the leader of a vast intelligence organization--the only woman to serve as a chef de resistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group's name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah's Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their...