I am so impressed by how brave and hard-working people were then. Despite being exhausted by the Depression ordinary people rose to the occasion all over the world and defeated the bad guys. And the Nazis and the Japanese military dictatorship–they were psychopaths and sociopaths. It wasn’t a given that the Allies would win. It’s the last war we fought that wasn’t a war of choice, and it was a real battle between good and evil. What interested you about this period and this legendary organization? Louise’s War is set in 1942 and involves the Office of Strategic Services. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch-a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about-Louise realizes she may be able to help Rachel escape from Vichy France. In her new novel, Louise’s War, a young widow named Louise Pearlie has come to Washington DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. Sarah Shaber is an award winning novelist described as having a “historian’s eye for the telling detail” and the ability to “capture the essence of Washington in 1942 with its paranoia, its secrecy, and its potential to let women reinvent themselves at a volatile time.”
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