Full name: Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

Authors: Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780307335906 0307335909

Marthe Cohn was a beautiful young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. The rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army. As a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army, Marthe fought valiantly to retrieve needed inside information about Nazi troop movements by slipping behind enemy lines, utilizing her perfect German accent and blond hair to pose as a young German nurse who was desperately trying to obtain word of a fictional fiance. By traveling throughout the countryside and approaching troops sympathetic to her plight, risking death every time she did so, she learned where they were going next and was able to alert Allied commanders. When, at the age of eighty, Marthe Cohn was awarded France's highest military honor, the Medaille Militaire, not even her children knew to what extent this modest woman had faced death daily while helping defeat the Nazi empire. At its heart, this remarkable memoir is the tale of an ordinary human being who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero her country needed her to be. Similar books: Crossing the Borders of Time by Leslie Maitland Resistance by Agnes Humbert Eleanor's story by Eleanor Ramrath Garner The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac Village of Secrets by Caroline Moorehead A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler by Trudi Kanter American Sniper by Chris Kyle No Easy Day by Mark Owen Avenue of Spies by Alex Kershaw I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman Auschwitz by Miklos Nyiszli Clara's War by Clara Kramer The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart A Woman in Berlin by Marta Hillers A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal Devil at My Heels by Louis Zamperini Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor