LEADER 05424cam a2200793 i 4500001 282404 005 20240621235119.0 008 220126t20192019mauaf e b 001 0beng 010 2019009834 020 9781328528537 |qhardcover 020 1328528537 |qhardcover 020 |z9781328529909 |q(e-book) 024 8 40029464979 035 (OCoLC)on1080245757 035 282404 042 pcc 043 n-us---e-gx---e-au---e------ 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOMN |dGL4 |dLEB |dJTH |dOCLCO |dOCL |dVAX |dYDX |dOCLCO |dVP@ |dYUS |dPUL |dOCLCO |dUAB |dOCLCO |dOCLCQ |dBUF |dOCLCO |dSTF |dOCLCO |dCNCGM |dTXSCH |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dALECL |dOCLCO |dINR |dOCL |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dDLC |dLHM 050 00 D810.S8 |bM337 2019 100 1 Lichtblau, Eric, |eauthor. 245 10 Return to the Reich : |ba Holocaust refugee's secret mission to defeat the Nazis / |cEric Lichtblau. 264 1 Boston : |bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, |c2019. 264 4 |c©2019 300 xiii, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 "The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States--they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938. In America, Freddy tried enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor, only to be rejected as an "enemy alien" because he was German. He was soon recruited to the OSS, the country's first spy outfit before the CIA. Freddy, joined by Dutch Jewish refugee Hans Wynberg and Nazi defector Franz Weber, parachuted into Austria as the leader of Operation Greenup, meant to deter Hitler's last stand. He posed as a Nazi officer and a French POW for months, dispatching reports to the OSS via Hans, holed up with a radio in a nearby attic. The reports contained a goldmine of information, provided key intelligence about the Battle of the Bulge, and allowed the Allies to bomb twenty Nazi trains. On the verge of the Allied victory, Freddy was captured by the Gestapo and tortured and waterboarded for days. Remarkably, he persuaded the Nazi commander for the region to surrender, completing one of the most successful OSS missions of the war. Based on years of research and interviews with Mayer himself, whom the author was able to meet only months before his death at the age of ninety-four, Return to the Reich is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism"-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Prologue -- A German boy -- Enemy alien -- The cloak-and-dagger brigade -- The third man -- The drop -- The glacier -- "Franz Weber sent me" -- The Führer's bunker -- The birth of a Frenchman -- "Take Innsbruck" -- The water treatment -- A white flag -- Epilogue: After the fall. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Mayer, Frederick, |d1921-2016. 610 10 United States. |bOffice of Strategic Services |xOfficials and employees |vBiography. 650 0 Spies |zUnited States |vBiography. 650 0 Jews |zGermany |zFreiburg im Breisgau |vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xSecret service |zUnited States. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zAustria. 650 0 Espionage, American |zEurope |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) |vBiography. 650 7 HISTORY / Military / World War II. |2bisacsh 650 7 HISTORY / Holocaust. |2bisacsh 610 17 United States. |bOffice of Strategic Services. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00542242 650 7 Employees. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00909111 650 7 Espionage, American. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00915388 650 7 Jews. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00983135 650 7 Secret service. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01110661 650 7 Spies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01129772 650 7 Underground movements, War. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01355184 651 7 Austria. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204901 651 7 Europe. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01245064 651 7 Germany |zFreiburg im Breisgau. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01215531 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 610 17 USA |bOffice of Strategic Services. |2gnd |0(DE-588)2083772-0 650 7 Spionage. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4056287-6 650 7 Weltkrieg |g1939-1945. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4079167-1 651 7 Tirol. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4060207-2 610 10 United States. |bOffice of Strategic Services |vBiography. 650 0 Jews |zGermany |vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xSecret service. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements. 647 7 World War |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 0 History. 655 7 Biographies. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 776 08 |iOnline version:Lichtblau, Eric, author. |tReturn to the Reich |dBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 |z9781328529909 |w(DLC) 2019011526 852 0 |bscstacks |hD810.S8 |iM337 2019