Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany-Fast Shipping

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“[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worsttimes in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but survivingwith her spirit and integrity intact.” —Publishers Weekly

MartheCohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the Germanborder in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jewsfleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by theirterrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. Asthe Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe’s sister was arrested and sent toAuschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south ofFrance.

Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became amember of the intelligence service of the French First Army. Marthe, using her perfect Germanaccent and blond hair to pose as a youngGerman nurse who wasdesperately trying to obtain word of a fictionalfiancé, would slip behind enemy lines to retrieve inside information about Nazi troopmovements. By travelingthroughout the countryside and approaching troops sympathetic to herplight–risking death every time she did so–she learned where they weregoing next and was able to alert Allied commanders.

When, at theage of eighty, Marthe Cohn was awarded France’s highest military honor,the Médaille Militaire, not even her children knew to what extent thismodest woman had helped defeat the Nazi its heart, this remarkable memoir is the tale of an ordinary humanbeing who, under extraordinary circumstances, became the hero hercountry needed her to be.