Nahlah Ayed\, host of CBC's Ideas\, discus ses her new book \;The War We Won Apart \;the untold stor y of two elite agents\, one Canadian\, one British\, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII. \;
\nOn opposite sides of the p ond\, Sonia Butt\, an adventurous young British woman\, and Guy d&rsquo\;A rtois\, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man\, are preparin g for war. As the world&rsquo\;s deadliest conflict to date unfolds\, Soni a and Guy learn how to parachute into enemy territory\, how to kill\, blow up rail lines\, and eventually... how to love each other. \;
\nWriting in vivid\, heart-stopping prose\, Ayed follows Sonia as she plunge s into Nazi-occupied France and slinks into black market restaurants to th row off occupying Nazi forces\, while at the same time participating in sa botage operations against them\; and as Guy\, in another corner of France\ , trains hundreds into a resistance army. Reconstructed from hours of unpu blished interviews and hundreds of archival and personal documents\, the s tory Ayed tells is about the ravaging costs of war paid for disproportiona tely by the young. \;
\nNahlah Aye d is an award-winning writer\, broadcaster\, and currently producer and ho st of CBC&rsquo\;s \;Ideas. For two decades\, Ayed worked in hot zones around the globe&mdash\;from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq\, to Russia &rsquo\;s annexation of Crimea. Her first book\, \;A Thousand Fare wells\, was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General&rsquo\;s Literar y Awards.
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