Liberty Lady: A True Story of Love and Espionage in WWII Sweden

by Ye Court Jesters

Overview

Liberty Lady is the true story of a WWII bomber and its crew forced to land in neutral Sweden during the Eighth Air Force’s first large-scale daylight bombing raid on Berlin. 1st Lt. Herman Allen was interned and began working for his country’s espionage agency, the OSS, with instructions to befriend a businessman suspected of selling secrets to the Germans. Soon Herman fell in love with a beautiful Swedish-American secretary working for the OSS, their courtship unfolding amid the glamour and intrigue of wartime Stockholm. As Swedish newspapers trumpeted one of the biggest spy scandals of the war, two of the main protagonists walked down the aisle in a storybook wedding presided over by the nephew of the King of Sweden.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998257020
Publisher:	Beaver's Spur Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	10/27/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	514
File size:	10 MB

Table of Contents

Prologue.

1. Heart Hospital
2. Hedy's Story (The Coordinator of Information, London, The Baby Blitz)
3. Herman's Story
4. The War Book of Herman Allen (The Eighth Air Force, The Bombardier, Thurleigh)
5. 11 January 1944
6. Big Week 
7. Mission 12 - 6 March 1944
8. Liberty Lady
9. Sweden and World War II. (Stockholm, Interned Airmen, Count Folke Bernadotte, Aircraft Internment, Bernt Balchen, The Rockets, The Americans in Sweden, First stop Falun, Rättvik)
10. November 20, 2007, Providence Hospital
11. Spies, Spies, Spies (The Swedes, The Americans, The Germans, Erika Wendt, The Office of the Military Air Attache, Escape and Evasion, Enemy Penetration, Herman and Folke Bernadotte, Social Shadows, Dr. John Lönnegren, Overlord, Prisoner of War Exchanges, Destination Uppsala, Doc Potter, Stella Polaris, The War Refugee Board and Wallenberg, Lönnegren Leak, Konstnärshuset, The General’s Visit, Berns, The Arrest, The New Year Explodes)
12. The Wedding
13. The White Buses
14. Goodbye Love
15. Judgment After All (The War in Europe is Over, Eric Siegfried Erickson)
16. Going Home
17. Thanksgiving 2007
18. After the War (The End of the OSS, The American Internees, The Liberty Lady)
19. The Mediator
20. Shoah
21. Ace Allen
22. Bartow
23. Columbia
24. Between Two Worlds
25. November 24, 2007
26. Kum ba yah
27. The Atria

Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

American Aviation Historical Society

In Liberty Lady, Pat DiGeorge has written a biography of her parents that reads like one of John LeCareé's novels. The main characters are American B-17 bombardier 1st Lt. Herman Allen and Swedish-American Hedy Johnson who worked in England and Sweden for William Donovan's OSS. … (Reviewed by Cal Taylor, LtCol, USAF, Retired.)

The State newspaper, Columbia, SC

Shortly after Hedy Allen’s death at the age of 86, her oldest daughter, Pat DiGeorge, carried home boxes of mementos her mother had saved for decades. She was able to piece together the incredible story of her parents meeting and marrying while dealing with counterespionage in Sweden in the final months of World War II.

DiGeorge weaved what she discovered in that box of mementos with several years worth of research on what happened in Sweden while her parents were there, and turned it into a book. (Reviewed by Lezlie Patterson)

Professor Jeffrey Andrew Barash

This is a true-to-life adventure story that took place during World War II. It is well written and excellent reading.

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