Paris-Underground

WITH a Paris apartment as the base of her operations, the author of this uncommon book was able to help, all told, more than a hundred British soldiers escape from Occupied France. Her associates in these bold deeds were under the death sentence when Mrs. Shiber last heard of them, and she herself was finally seized and imprisoned by the Gestapo.

The reader is bound to marvel, occasionally, at the ease with which the ring was able to carry on so energetically under the noses of the secret police, to keep supplied with gasoline, to motor here and there on seemingly slight pretexts, and to lodge a succession of adult male foreigners in Mrs. Shiber’s apartment. Some of the details seem uncomfortably pat, but of the author’s imprisonment and experiences in the large, there need be no doubt. The book is a vivid record of Paris under the Nazi rule.