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Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it - a memoir built on fabrications. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days shares their incredible, never-before-told full story.. "A heart-pounding tale of betrayal that is impossible to put down." - Lynne Olson, author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War. Etta Shiber and Kate Bonnefous are the unlikeliest of heroines: two seemingly ordinary women, an American widow and an English divorcée, 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 set out to rescue British and French soldiers trapped behind enemy lines - some of whom they daringly smuggle through Nazi checkpoints hidden inside the trunk of their car.
About the Author
Matthew Goodman is the author of four books of nonfiction. His book "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World," was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. Matthew's writing has appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Salon, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.
