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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Unless credited below, all insert photographs and reproductions are used at the courtesy of Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries
1 Nyala diorama: American Museum of Natural History
2 Margaret Bourke-White: Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
3 Maxwell Jerome Papurt: National Archives
4 Doyle Dickson: Courtesy of Joe Dickson
5 Book cover from Diary of a Kriegie by Edward W. Beattie Jr.: Copyright © 1946 by Edward W. Beattie Jr. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
6 Marie-Agnès Cailliau and her husband: Photograph by Eric Schwab/AFP/Getty Images
7 Railyards at the border: Courtesy of SÜDKURIER
8 Gertie in 1993: Photograph by Leora Armstrong
Gertie (left) was born Gertrude Sanford in Aiken, South Carolina, on March 29, 1902. She is pictured here with her older siblings: Jane, who went on to marry an Italian diplomat, and Stephen, better known as Laddie, who became an international polo player.
Gertie (left), wearing a cowboy hat and holding a rifle, in the Teton Range in Wyoming in the summer of 1920 with a friend and a cowboy guide. She shot her first elk on the trip, sparking a lifelong passion for hunting.
Gertie (second from right), smoking a pipe, with (from left) T. D. Carter, an assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History; Morris Legendre, Gertie’s future brother-in-law; and Sidney Legendre, her future husband, during the 1928–29 Abyssinia expedition
Gertie holding the head of a lion, with an African guide to her left, during a 1927–28 East Africa expedition. She continued to hunt so she could showcase her trophies at institutions such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The nyala diorama in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History was created from the specimens Gertie, Sidney, and Morris hunted in Abyssinia in 1928 and 1929.
Gertie and Sidney were married on September 17, 1929, at Manhattan’s St. James’ Episcopal Church. A reception for several hundred followed at the family’s Seventy-Second Street mansion. The newlyweds spent their wedding night at the Waldorf.
In 1930, Gertie and Sidney purchased a house and plantation called Medway near Charleston, South Carolina. They refurbished the dilapidated house and eventually acquired more than seven thousand surrounding acres.
Gertie in 1933, reclining in an armchair at Medway
Gertie and Sidney in 1935 at Medway with their daughter Landine, who was born in 1933
Sidney at Medway in 1935, the family dog at his feet
Sidney reads a newspaper on the street in this undated photograph.
Gertie, here smoking a cigarette, preferred hunting over debutante balls.
Gertie, Sidney, and their dog in a convertible in an undated photograph
Sidney (right) and Morris Legendre received commissions in the navy reserve after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Gertie at her desk in the London branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1943
Gertie enjoyed a hectic social life when time allowed; here she sits on a couch with friends at a party at her London home in 1944.
General William Donovan, head of the OSS (left), and United States ambassador John Gilbert Winant at Gertie’s home in London in 1944
Bob Jennings fixing a tire in northern France, as he and Gertie drive toward Luxembourg in September 1944
Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White in front of the Flying Fortress bomber from which she had photographed an attack on Tunis in 1943. She was “the first woman ever to fly with a U.S. combat crew over enemy soil,” Life noted.
Maxwell Jerome Papurt, an OSS officer, served in U.S. Army intelligence in Naples (where he fell in love with Bourke-White) and transferred to the OSS before D-day. He was based in Luxembourg City when he met Gertie and Jennings.
Doyle Dickson, a young private attached to the OSS, was the driver when Gertie, Papurt, and Jennings went to Wallendorf. He is seen here in an undated photograph.
Gertie was questioned at Diez Castle in 1944. Located on the Lahn River northwest of Frankfurt, it was used by the German military as an interrogation center for prisoners of special interest who had been captured on the western front.
Wilhelm Gosewisch, Gertie’s chief interrogator at Diez Castle, immigrated to the United States in 1921 and returned to Germany in 1934.
Edward W. Beattie Jr., a United Press correspondent who was captured in France in 1944, was also questioned at Diez Castle before he was transferred to Berlin.
The first page of the letter Gertie was allowed to write to her friend Marian Hall while she was held at Diez Castle. Although she also wrote to her husband, he never received those letters.
Gertie’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force permit, which was issued to her in August 1944, before her transfer from London to Paris
A charcoal drawing of Gertie made by Toni May, one of her guards, while she was held captive in Flamersheim, southwest of Bonn
Gertie leaning against a post at the villa in the Wannsee section of Berlin, where she was held in November and December 1944
Policewoman Ursula Sebastian (left) and interpreter Ursula Zieschang at the villa in Berlin
Hans H. Grieme and his wife, Nena, housed Gertie at their home in Kronberg, just outside Frankfurt, in March 1945.
Marie-Agnès Cailliau, General Charles de Gaulle’s sister, and her husband, Alfred, after their liberation at Castle Itter in Austria, in May 1945. Marie-Agnès and Gertie were imprisoned together at a hotel on the Rhine in early 1945.
The Griemes’ home in Kronberg
The railyards at the border crossing between Constance, Germany, and Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, where Gertie made her escape in March 1945. The crossing was used only for the special rail transfer of prisoners and others and was not a regular border post.
Gertie in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, after her escape from Germany
Gertie’s sister, Jane (left), and her husband, Mario Pansa, an Italian diplomat who was close to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, in an undated photograph
A painting of Sidney Legendre by the British artist Simon Elwes that hung at Medway
A painting of Gertie by the Irish artist William Orpen that hung at Medway
Gertie, on a visit to Islay, Scotland, in 1993, when she was ninety-one
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Finn is the national security editor at The Washington Post. He is also the co-author of The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and a finalist for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. The Zhivago Affair has been translated into eight languages.
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