Between
the Lines: Overseas with the Red Cross and OSS in World War II
by Elizabeth Phenix Wiesner
ISBN 1-889274-04-6; Hardbound, 284 pages; $21.95.
Elizabeth Phenix Wiesner is working in a Boston
doctor’s office when the war begins. This memoir in letters follows Miss Phenix as
she joins the American Red Cross to serve with the 26th General Hospital in
North Africa. In Bari, Italy, she witnesses the air raid that causes disaster when German
bombers sink an American ship secretly loaded with mustard gas. Leaving the Red Cross for
OSS, she moves to Spain and England, then becomes Allen Dulles’s secretary in
Switzerland. 
For security reasons she cannot write home about spy matters, of course; instead her letters to her parents reveal the vibrant day-to-day life of a young American woman doing vital work in Europe and the Mediterranean during WWII. (After the war, Miss Phenix married a diplomat, raised a family and answered a call to the Episcopal priesthood as related in her earlier book, Pilgrim and Pioneer, Churchman Publishing Ltd/Morehouse, 1989.)
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