Monica

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 24 cm. [12], 244 pages. Illustrations. Index. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Sutherland has spent most of her career chronicling the lives of oft-forgotten, aristocratic European women who have played a role in political and historical events. Monica Emily Wichfeld (née Massy-Beresford; 12 July 1894 - 27 February 1945) was a leading member of the Danish resistance during the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War. Through Count Carl-Adam "Bobby" Moltke, Wichfeld met Flemming Muus, a man that had trained under Churchill's Special Operations Executive, and would eventually become her son-in-law. Wichfeld made her estate available to Muus to house the top-secret SOE agent Jens Jacob Jensen, codenamed "Jacob" and shelter him. Eventually she and Jacob grew to lead the Lolland resistance and Engestofte became central to the recruitment, training, arming, planning, direction and organization of the actions of the resistance (such as the bombing of the Naskov shipyard), as well as being a receiving ground for British paratroopers and weapons drops. In January 1944, she was arrested at Engestofte and imprisoned in Copenhagen's Vestre Fængsel prison where she was subjected to daily interrogation for four months.