It was common practice at the time to not print the names of female journalists-particularly freelancers. Hearst does not make archived material available digitally and, were I to visit their archives in person, I likely wouldn’t find Nancy’s articles regardless. After endless emails and phone calls, a university librarian finally explained to me that I was wasting my time. I don’t think I am alone in this failure, however, because not a single one of her biographers reference them either. I spent months in the summer of 2018 trying to locate the articles that Nancy wrote for Hearst-particularly her interview with Adolph Hitler-to no avail. “If they gave me a medal now, it wouldn’t be for love, so I don’t want anything from them.” We know a great deal about her exploits on the battlefield-thanks in no small part to the autobiography she published in 1985-but we know little to nothing about her work as a journalist. Nancy Wake went on to become one of the most decorated women of WWII, earning a total of twelve medals from five different countries. Not bad for a scrappy freelance journalist with a gift for lying and calling bluffs.
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