25 Oct Liberty Lady: a True Story of Love and Espionage in WWII Sweden

I have read and reviewed so many World War II books, and now it’s hard to believe that mine is finally written and published!

My research into this exciting true story has taken me to Sweden twice; to the Roger A. Freeman Eighth Air Force Research Center in Pooler, Georgia; to the National Archives in College Park, Maryland; and to the Air Force Historical Research Agency in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 2012, I  visited  The 306th Bombardment Group Museum in Thurleigh, England, the site of the airfield where my father’s crew was stationed.  

Until the release of Liberty Lady, little has been published in the English language about two significant topics of World War II history – the American internees in Sweden and the operations of the OSS in Stockholm.  

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.

Writing this book has been the most exciting (and nerve-wracking) adventure of my life!

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Beaver’s Spur Publishing, LLC.

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