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04091aam a22006498i 4500 001 1BA777C4E5A311E9B7B99A5997128E48 003 SILO 005 20191003010029 008 190214t20192019nyuabf b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2019002112 020 $a 1524747335 020 $a 9781524747336 035 $a (OCoLC)1081347025 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d OCL $d IHV $d OCLCQ $d UAP $d JAS $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gw--- $a e-gw--- 050 00 $a D810.S8 $b L516 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Finn, Peter, $d 1962- $e author. 245 12 $a A guest of the Reich : $b the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany / $c Peter Finn. 246 3 $a Story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 500 $a Map on endpapers. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-228) and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Legendre, Gertrude Sanford, $d 1902-2000. 610 10 $a United States. $b Office of Strategic Services $x History. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Secret service $z United States. 650 0 $a Women spies $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women prisoners of war $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Germany $x Prisoners and prisons. 650 0 $a Socialites $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 19 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409033949.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305015758.0 952 $l BKPC251 $d 20230421134439.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909054623.0 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20220405020527.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20201215011218.0 952 $l OEPC877 $d 20200702125424.0 $m B Leg 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20200609014201.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204095406.0 952 $l YLPC314 $d 20200115011139.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110082042.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20200104011204.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103023408.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20191205014352.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20191107011011.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20191029012152.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20191004010658.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20191003010542.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191003010307.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1BA777C4E5A311E9B7B99A5997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search