Summary

Part 2 – “Kittyhawk” – consists of a diary kept by Maddie after she crash lands in France. In Chapter 1, Maddie is hiding in the attic of a local farmer whose family are members of the French Resistance.

Maddie recalls the accident in the plane. Although the agents who rescued Maddie from the plane were surprised that she was not who they were expecting, they were impressed that she had survived the anti-aircraft fire and had successfully delivered their dynamite. They had shot a German sentry earlier and dressed him in Maddie’s clothes before setting fire to the plane with the dead man in the cockpit in order to dispose of his body. They also took the opportunity to destroy 11 wireless sets that they no longer needed. Maddie worries about hiding in Nazi-occupied France because she is Jewish.

In Chapter 2, Maddie writes that the British...