Books: Soldier Snafcher

PARIS—UNDERGROUND—Effa Shiber, in collaboration with Anne and Paul Dupre—Scribner ($2.50).

Mrs. 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....

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