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A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and esca...

A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Ge...

A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and esca...

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A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany / Peter Finn.

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Full title

A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany / Peter Finn.

Publisher

New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]

Call Numbers

G 2019/5042

Record Identifier

74VKV5yqwEVA

MMS ID

991024272010302626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

viii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Content type

text

still image

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]

Edition

First edition.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

[2019]

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"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 episo...

Alternative Titles

Full title

A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany / Peter Finn.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-228) and index.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2019/5042

Record Identifier

74VKV5yqwEVA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5yqwEVA

Other Identifiers

ISBN

9781524747336 hardcover alkaline paper

1524747335 hardcover alkaline paper

DDC

940.547243092 B

MMS ID

991024272010302626

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