04711cam a2200997 4500 530489790 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780358172130 0358172136 2410fe3b-faa0-4722-ab04-10868c2d86c1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4848297 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lichtblau, Eric. Return to the Reich [Libby] : A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis. HMH Books, 2019. Nazis. World War II. kidnap. War. Nonfiction. germany. European History. army. jew. ww2. Military. WW II . Pearl Harbor. spy. Nazi. battles. birthday gift. WWII. nazi germany. espionage. Battle of the Bulge. Hiroshima. Holocaust. Military History. History. World War 2. torture. narrative nonfiction. hitler. commando. father's day gift. behind enemy lines. oss. gifts for dad. history books. historical books. dad gift. gifts for history buffs. world war 2 books. WW 2. History book. secret mission. fathers day gifts. Holocaust books. army books. military history books. war book. war books. dad gifts. war history books. history gifts. history buff gifts. history lovers gifts. history teacher gifts. world war ii gifts. Fred Mayer. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 179MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 179MB. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>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.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> 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, <i>Return to the Reich</i> is an eye-opening, unforgettable narrative of World War II heroism.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Boutsikaris, Dennis. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0874-1/4848297-ReturnToTheReich.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2410fe3b-faa0-4722-ab04-10868c2d86c1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0874-1/4848297-ReturnToTheReich.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2410fe3b-faa0-4722-ab04-10868c2d86c1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)