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Band of Sisters

The Untold Story of Madeleine Pauliac, the Women of the Blue Squadron, and Their Daring Rescue Missions in the Last Days of World War II
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Band of Sisters tells the dramatic story of Madeleine Pauliac, a French army doctor, and a band of women-known as the Blue Squadron---in the final days of World War II operating in the most dangerous of circumstances to rescue and repatriate as many of the half million or so of their countrymen as possible who were stranded, captured, or injured-or all of three-by the Germans and the Russians as they aggressively managed and manipulated to control and dominate Poland as the Iron Curtain was descending upon Eastern Europe. It's a previously unknown story of heroism and daring by a remarkable group of women, none more brave and intrepid than Pauliac herself, who was the author's aunt that he would never know.
Philippe Maynial is a film executive turned writer and the nephew of Madeline Pauliac, the main character of the narrative. Before he embarked on his research into his aunt's experiences in World War II, Maynial spent his entire career in the film industry. He currently resides in France. Richard Bernstein has been a prominent journalist and writer for forty years, first with Time magazine, then for a quarter of a century at The New York Times, and currently as a freelance writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. His foreign assignments for The Times included the posts of bureau chief at the United Nations, the Paris bureau, and Berlin. For six years, he was one of the paper's daily book critics.
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