Behind Enemy Lines - Marthe Cohn

"[T]he amazing story of a woman who lived through one of the worst
times in human history, losing family members to the Nazis but surviving
with her spirit and integrity intact." -Publishers Weekly

Marthe
Cohn was a 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 and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of
France.

Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a
member of the intelligence service of the French First Army. Marthe, using her perfect German
accent and blond hair to pose as a young
German nurse who was
desperately trying to obtain word of a fictional
fianc, would slip behind enemy lines to retrieve inside information about Nazi troop
movements. 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 Mdaille Militaire, not even her children knew to what extent this
modest woman had helped 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.