Join One More Page Books for an evening of World War II history with Colonel Nicholas E. Reynolds, USMCR, co-author of Ortiz's War: The Allies' Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France, in conversation with Andy Kutler, author of The Fight of Their Lives: A 21st-Century Primer on World War II.
ABOUT ORTIZ'S WAR:
The untold story of the Allies' secret weapon in occupied France.
Peter J. Ortiz's path to becoming one of the most decorated Marines of World War II was unlike any other. Born in New York and raised between California and France, he ran away from boarding school as a teenager to join the French Foreign Legion, fought in North Africa, and was wounded and captured on the front lines against the Germans in 1940 escaping more than once, including by posing as a dead soldier to slip off a hospital train. After enlisting in the Marine Corps the day after Pearl Harbor, his fluency in French and knack for languages made him a natural fit for the OSS, America's forerunner to the CIA, and he went on to become one of the most battle-decorated members of the agency's earliest ranks. Ortiz's War is a gripping account of courage, resistance, and self-sacrifice, drawn from a story that's remained untold for far too long.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Nicholas E. Reynolds is the co-author of Ortiz's War written with Katie Sanders. He has spent forty years working in military history and intelligence, with a few unusual detours along the way. A Marine Corps infantry officer and historian with a PhD from Oxford, he went on to a long career at the CIA, most recently as historian for the CIA Museum. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935–1961 and Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence.
IN CONVERSATION WITH ANDY KUTLER
Andy Kutler is the author of The Fight of Their Lives: A 21st-Century Primer on World War II, along with Honorable Profession, The Batter's Box, and The Other Side of Life. Over a thirty-year career in government and industry, he's worked in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Secret Service, and the national security community, and has written extensively for The Huffington Post and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He lives with his wife and two children in Arlington, Virginia.