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PARIS-UNDERGROUND-Effa Shiber, in collaboration with Anne and Paul Dupre-Scribner...
...Etta Shiber, a former Manhattan housewife, whose chief excitement in life used to be attending concerts, was changed by Dunkirk into a conspirator. She was tracked around Paris, caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo, and finally handed over to the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, Nazi spy and hairdresser extraordinary on the S.S. Enropa. Author Shibers crime: helping to smuggle British soldiers out of Occupied France. Paris-Underground* a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for October, is Mrs. Shiber's exciting story of how she did it. The book is avowedly...
Incautious Conspirator. After the book had been printed, it was realized that incautious Conspirator Shiber had used the real name of the principal character. So all copies of that version of Paris-Underground were destroyed. In the present version, the principal character is called Kitty Beaurepos. She was the daughter of a London banker, kept a small dress shop, lived in a pleasant apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. When her husband died, Mrs. Shiber shared Kitty's apartment for three tranquil years. Then the Nazis overran France and the two women tried to flee by automobile. The Nazis...
...back the two women stopped at an inn. William Gray, an R.A.F. pilot who did not get away at Dunkirk, was hiding there. The proprietor did not want Gray to stay; if he left, the Nazis would capture him. Kitty and Mrs. Shiber secreted him in the luggage compartment of their car, got him into their Paris apartment before they fully realized the risk they had taken, or knew what they would do with Pilot Gray...
...Gray off their hands, but not off their minds. They had outwitted the Gestapo, but there were some 10,000 British soldiers who had been left behind at Dunkirk and were living in the woods. Kitty decided to smuggle as many of them as possible back to Britain. Mrs. Shiber decided to help...