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Finn, Peter, 1962-
Subjects
Legendre, Gertrude Sanford, 1902-2000.
United States. Office of Strategic Services -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
Women spies -- United States -- Biography.
Women prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Prisoners and prisons.
Socialites -- United States -- Biography.
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Finn, Peter, 1962-
Legendre, Gertrude Sanford, 1902-2000.
United States. Office of Strategic Services -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
Women spies -- United States -- Biography.
Women prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Prisoners and prisons.
Socialites -- United States -- Biography.
MARC Display
A
guest
of the
Reich
: the
story
of
American
heiress
Gertrude
Legendre
and her
dramatic
captivity
and
daring
escape
from
Nazi
Germany
/ Peter Finn.
by
Finn, Peter, 1962-
Pantheon Books, 2019.
Call #:
940.547243 F514g
Subjects
Legendre
,
Gertrude
Sanford, 1902-2000.
United States. Office of Strategic Services -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
Women spies -- United States -- Biography.
Women prisoners of war --
Germany
-- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 --
Germany
-- Prisoners and prisons.
Socialites -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781524747336 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"From the co-author of The Zhivago Affair, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, comes the riveting
story
of a wealthy
heiress
who joined the OSS and was the only
American
woman in uniform to be captured by the Germans; her imprisonment among the
Nazi
elite and
daring
escape
in 1945 comprise one of the more remarkable untold episodes of WWII.
Gertrude
"Gertie"
Legendre
was a society
heiress
from South Carolina who lived a charmed life during the 1920s and 1930s. But the attack on Pearl Harbor gave her a different focus and she joined the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA). First in Washington and then in London, some of the most closely-held government secrets passed through her hands. As the Allies advanced into France in September 1944, she was ordered to Paris. Headstrong and eager "to smell the fighting," she fell into
Nazi
hands. Subjected to repeated interrogations, including by the SS, she held to the fiction that she was merely a U.S. embassy clerk. Her toughness averted a potential intelligence disaster, and unlike most prisoners, Gertie was presumed valuable to Nazis who knew they'd soon need a bargaining chip with the victors. Moved from city to city throughout
Germany
for six months before her
dramatic
escape
into Switzerland, she was able to witness the collapse of Hitler's
Reich
as no other
American
did. A
Guest
of the
Reich
provides a propulsive, heart-racing account of a little-known chapter in the
story
of the war, and a vivid portrait of a truly extraordinary woman."--From publisher.
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Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
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