She Was A WW II Photographer Behind Enemy Lines

Jeane Slone's fourth acclaimed historical novel
Meet Lieutenant Adeline Peterson, war correspondent in eleven theaters of war a brave, determined, and resilient woman who broke gender biases to photograph the world and document the atrocities of war.
Caught in a Black Blizzard in Oklahoma, endured swarms of locusts
Photographed Depression-era dance marathons, visited illegal speakeasies
Detained by a Nazi officer under gunpoint in Czechoslovakia
Fled Paris on foot and got caught in the Blitz in London
Photographed the Nazi takeover of Greece
Jailed in Belgrade by the Gestapo
Photographed the first bomb to fall on Moscow
Torpedoed at sea in North Africa in a convoy headed to war
Hit by Junker planes in a B-17 Flying Fortress
Stowed away on a hospital ship during D-Day and arrested for disobeying orders
Witnessed machine-gun fire during the liberation of France
Almost hit by Japanese snipers on Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima
Arrested for disobeying orders during the battle of Okinawa
First war correspondent to document the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Toured Mengele's torture chambers after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
Witnessed Disease X after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki
Photographed refugees after the war for the Quakers.

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