THE NINE: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

At the end of WWII, Strauss's great-aunt Helene led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped the SS and made their way through war-torn Germany. Drawing on their various strengths--diplomacy, humor, courage--they made it, against all odds, across the front lines and eventually back to Paris, and this is their story. Illus.