Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it--a memoir that was built on lies. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days shares their incredible, never-before-told full story. Etta Shiber and Kitty Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorc e, living quietly together in Paris. Yet during the Nazi occupation, these two friends find themselves unexpectedly plunged into the whirlwind of history. With the help of a French country priest and others, they rescue untold numbers of British and French soldiers trapped behind enemy lines--some of whom they daringly smuggle through Nazi checkpoints in the trunk of their car. Ultimately the Gestapo captures them both. After eighteen months in...
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