Authors Nicholas Reynolds & Katie S. Sanders | ORTIZ'S WAR
About this Event
Bards Alley is hosting authors Nicholas Reynolds and Katie S. Sanders to discuss their brand new release Ortiz's War: The Allies' Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France. This nonfiction release tells the story of Peter J. Ortiz and his life of courage, resistance, and self-sacrifice during WWII.
Books will be available for purchase during the event and a book signing will follow their discussion. You may reserve a copy of the book under your name as a ticketed add-on, or you can call the store at (571) 459-2653.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Peter J. Ortiz’s path to becoming the most battle-decorated member of America’s first spy agency—and one of the most decorated Marines of World War II—was unlike any other.
Docking in the US the day after Pearl Harbor, Ortiz enlisted in the Marine Corps. Instead of being deployed to the Pacific like the majority of Marines, Ortiz was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—America’s World War II forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency—for special operations in North Africa and Europe.
In 1944, Ortiz parachuted into France on two top-secret inter-Allied missions. Operating deep behind enemy lines, he traveled throughout Southeastern France, arming and training the Maquis, blowing up Nazi infrastructure, and aiding downed Allied airmen. Rotating his many covers, he infiltrated Nazi gatherings and funneled intelligence about German positions back to OSS London ahead of D-Day. By the time he escaped across the Pyrenees, he was among the Gestapo’s most wanted.
Two months after the Normandy landings, Ortiz jumped back into the French Alps, this time with a team of Americans. When his six-man patrol was surrounded by more than one hundred Germans at the village of Centron, Ortiz faced a choice: fight the enemy or save the village from Nazi annihilation.
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