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Also valuable war books, though not battle books, were: Tokyo Record (Otto Tolischus, $3); In Peace Japan Breeds War (Gustav Eckstein, $2.50); Japan's Military Masters (Hillis Lory, $2.50); Paris-Underground (Etta Shiber, $2.50) The Serbs Choose War (Ruth Mitchell, $2.75); They Shall Not Have Me (Jean Hélion...
...contact with the British soldiers. The two lady conspirators thought they had found the answer when they read an ad in the missing-persons column of the Nazi-controlled Paris-soir: "Jonathan Burke is looking for his friends and acquaintances. Address Military Hospital, Doullens (Somme)." Kitty insisted, against Mrs. Shiber's objections, that they rescue him. They...
This remarkable success emboldened the women to do something which many a reader will doubt, but which Mrs. Shiber insists is literally true. They advertised in Paris-soir: "William Gray (formerly of Dunkirk) is looking for his friends and relatives. Address Cafe Moderne, Rue Rodier, Paris." There were three replies-one obviously from the Gestapo, one too hazardous to follow up, one from a priest who was sheltering four British soldiers, was in touch with hundreds more. In the next four months Kitty and Mrs. Shiber helped almost 200 British soldiers to get out of Occupied France...
Then one morning in late November 1940, while Kitty was away, the Gestapo knocked at the door, carried Mrs. Shiber off to jail. Later the Nazis bagged Kitty and the priest. Mrs. Shiber was sentenced to three years at hard labor. Kitty and the priest were sentenced to death. But Mrs. Shiber believes that Kitty has not been executed, is in prison in Germany. The priest, according to Mrs. Shiber, was snatched from prison the day before his execution by two British Intelligence officers dressed in Nazi uniforms...
...Underground Author Shiber means, not an underground political movement, but an underground railroad such as fugitive slaves used...