Nazi steps out of the shadows — what would you do?

 you like spy novels, do not read this book. You will never read another spy novel. The scenarios in Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War are more terrifying and unlikely than anything a fiction writer could dream up. Truth is not only stranger than fiction. It is more terrifying than fiction. Did I say “unlikely”? If you were to design a profile of the least likely to succeed in defying the Nazis, it would be the profile of Waitstill and Martha Sharp. Martha’s “training,” such as it was, was Sunday School teacher. Waitstill’s “training” was Unitarian minister. Their life was the parsonage, the church and the parishoners. In Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. They spoke no European language. They handled no weapons. They had never studied international […]