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092    BIO|bLEGENDRE 
100 1  Finn, Peter,|d1962-|eauthor. 
245 12 A guest of the Reich :|bthe story of American heiress 
       Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from 
       Nazi Germany /|cPeter Finn. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPantheon Books,|c[2019] 
300    viii, 240 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and 
       index. 
520    "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"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Legendre, Gertrude Sanford,|d1902-2000. 
610 10 United States.|bOffice of Strategic Services|xHistory. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xSecret service|zUnited States. 
650  0 Women spies|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Women prisoners of war|zGermany|vBiography. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zGermany|xPrisoners and prisons. 
650  0 Socialites|zUnited States|vBiography.