Klaus Fuchs: Soviet Spy in the Manhattan Project (Part 2)

by Martha Hutchens

Bridge over the Santa Fe River, 
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The picture seems so innocent. However, as near as we can determine, this is the very place where the Cold War began.

But first, let’s back up a bit. In Part 1 of this post, I talked about Klaus Fuchs’ early life before he joined the British nuclear program in Spring of 1941. He would work with Rudolf Peierls, another German immigrant who was a theoretical physicist.

Also during this time, Fuchs connected with his Soviet contact, Ursula Kuczynski, code named Sonya. For possibly the first time, Fuchs passed work on to the Soviet Union. On June 18, 1942, Fuchs signed the Official Secrets Act, well after he began sharing information with the USSR. He was then given access to all the material in the British nuclear program.

Before this could happen, MI5 did a background check. The German report that Fuchs was a “notorious communist” raised concern, but was overshadowed by the fact that it was reported by the Gestapo, not exactly a reliable source.

In August of 1943, the British and Americans signed a pact to work together on the atomic bomb project. The die was cast.

270 Broadway, New York, New York
New York offices of the Manhattan Project
Also the source of the project's name
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On December 3, 1943, Fuchs arrived in the US along with the rest of the “British Mission.” These British scientists worked on the Manhattan Project from an office building in New York City. They were not subjected to the same background check that American scientists faced, because they had already passed a similar check in England.

If the Americans were to see Fuchs’ background check, they might have been concerned. It included entries such as: 

 “[Fuchs is] rather safer in America than in this country . . . away from his English friends. It would not be so easy for Fuchs to make contact with Communists in America, and that in any case he would probably be more roughly handled were he found out.”

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While Fuchs was in New York, he visited his sister for Christmas. Later, in February, he made contact with his second Soviet handler, code named Raymond. They met monthly, and Fuchs passed on many handwritten documents. When his work in New York was completed, Fuchs was first assigned to return to England. At the last minute, he was assigned to a different station, Los Alamos, NM.

As this was a last-minute assignment, Fuchs could not alert his handler about his trip. He left leave his sister instructions in case his handler, Raymond, contacted her. Of course, he gave the man a different name and didn’t mention his position.

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In Los Alamos, Oppenheimer had early on made one critical decision. Any of the senior scientists could have access to any information on the project. If two men wore white badges, they could freely discuss anything together. Oppenheimer argued that scientific progress required this free exchange of ideas. He was right.

General Groves, the military leader of the project, argued that allowing every man to have access to all data gave much more opportunity for spying. He was also right, as Klaus Fuchs would prove. Fuchs attended most of the weekly symposiums, and collected information to pass on to his Russian handlers, if he could ever reconnect with them.

In February 1945, six months after Fuchs arrived in Los Alamos, he was allowed to visit his sister in Cambridge. She gave him Raymond’s contact information. He and Raymond met, and Fuchs described much about what was happening in Los Alamos. He also passed on documents that he wrote from memory while at his sister’s.

Spitz clock, Santa Fe, NM
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He arranged for Raymond to meet him in Santa Fe, explaining that they should both set their watches by the large clock on San Francisco Street, then meet at the Castillo Bridge. They set the date and time as June 2, at 4 pm. On that day, Fuchs passed on detailed plans of the Fat Man bomb.

Fuchs and Raymond met again in September, but by this time the bombs were hardly secret.

Fuchs returned to England after the war, where he continued to work in the British atomic program.

However, in 1949, American codebreakers had broken enough of Soviet transmissions (Project Venona) to become aware of a spy among the British scientists in Los Alamos. Ironically, the information that would doom Fuchs passed through the hands of Kim Philby, a senior member of British counterintelligence, and another Soviet spy. Philby warned his KGB handlers that Fuchs was about to be identified, but the KGB did not warn Fuchs because they did not want to put Philby in danger.

Fuchs was arrested in 1950. Given the choice between cooperation and execution, Fuchs named his handler, Harry Gold. Gold was given the same choice, and he named David Greenglass as a second spy he dealt with. When interrogated, Greenglass named his sister and brother-in-law, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed without ever revealing any further spies.

The Russians detonated their first atomic bomb in 1949. It was an exact duplicate of the plans Fuchs delivered to them.

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Fuchs was generally respected by his colleagues in both Britain and America. However, Eleanor Jette has the following memory of Fuchs at Los Alamos:

“Fuchs was a cipher to me, a faceless nonentity despite all the occasions we were in his company. When the light of day was turned on his treachery, I realized he was perfect in his fole. Some years before I had discussed secret service work with a woman who was retired from it; I remarked that I always had a yen for it. She appraised me critically and shook her head.

‘You would never do, my dear. Your eyes are too blue, and your hair has too much red in it. Secret service work requires the operator to fade into the background.’

I didn’t recall her words the day Marge Schreiber and I specifically discussed Fuchs.

‘That guy baffles me,’ I said. ‘I can’t remember what he looks like until the next time I see him.’

Marge shivered slightly. ‘He gives me the creeps. He sits in the corners at parties and never says a word. I’ve never heard him laugh. He has a high-pitched giggle, and it gives me chills.’ “ Quote from Inside Box 1663 by Eleanor Jette.

These words would prove prophetic.

Martha Hutchens is a transplanted southerner who lives in Los Alamos, NM where she is surrounded by history so unbelievable it can only be true. She won the 2019 Golden Heart for Romance with Religious and Spiritual Elements. A former analytical chemist and retired homeschool mom, Martha is frequently found working on her latest knitting project when she isn’t writing.

Martha’s current novella is set in southeast Missouri during World War II. It is free to her newsletter subscribers. You can subscribe to my newsletter at my website, www.marthahutchens.com

After saving for years, Dot Finley's brother finally paid a down payment for his own land—only to be drafted into World War II. Now it is up to her to ensure that he doesn't lose his dream while fighting for everyone else's. No one is likely to help a sharecropper's family.

Nate Armstrong has all the land he can manage, especially if he wants any time to spend with his four-year-old daughter. Still, he can't stand by and watch the Finley family lose their dream. Especially after he learns that the banker's nephew has arranged to have their loan called.

Necessity forces them to work together. Can love grow along with crops?

The Girl Guide Spies

Today, I'm very happy to welcome fellow author Patty Smith Hall, who will share an interesting story about Girl Guides. Leave a comment at the end for a chance to win a drawing of our new novella, Crinoline Cowboys, which is coming out in five weeks. 

Thank you for having me today, Marilyn.

You’ve probably heard of Mati Hari, and how Julia Child spied for the Allies during World War II, but recently, I discovered a group of females that ‘spied’ for the MI5 from the second year of World War I to the palace of Versailles where the treaty was signed. This group of patriots have been kept secret since their service until last November on the hundredth-year anniversary of the end of World War I. So, who am I talking about?

The Girl Guides or as we know them in the United States, the Girl Scouts!

The Beginning

When Great Britain entered the war in August of 1914, their secret service agency, the MI5 faced a daunting challenge. German spies had infiltrated the country, seeking information regarding troop movement and battle plans. English men were scarce, so the MI5 turned to an unexpected source for help—the Boy Scouts. But problems arose. The boys were loud and bragged to their friends about their position with the MI5 which in turn, put the boys in danger. It was then that MI5 turned to the Girl Guides for help.

The Girl Guides weren’t idle during the first year of the war. Many of them learned to hunt and fish to provide food for families in their communities. Some learned medical skills and volunteered to drive ambulances at the front. Even the youngest members were involved with making and rolling bandages. But serving with the MI5 was something even the organization’s leaders hadn’t considered.

Qualifications of a Girl Guide Spy

First, the ninety girls chosen had to be between fourteen and sixteen years old, and in good standing with their troop. They needed to be quick, cheerful, and willing to do the work, swearing on their honor never to read any of the messages or paperwork they carried. They also had to sign a statement saying they had permission to serve from both parents as well as the Girl Guide leader who recommended them. After they were accepted, the girls served a three-month probational period, earning 30 pence (37 cents American) a week with dinner and tea included. They alternated working 9-6 or 10-7 and every other Sunday. The girls were allowed a week off during the summer as well as a short break at Easter and Christmas.

Not Your Ordinary Workday

The girls reported to Waterloo house or one of the other two houses used. They would dust, fill inkwells and disinfect phones during their first hour of work. After that, they would collect documents and post them, deliver messages at various areas around London, sort cards, collect paperwork to be burned and repair typewriters. They also delivered secret messages verbally.

By January 1916, the Girl Guides had proved to be so valuable to the MI5, they were giving their own company within the organization. Each patrol was assigned a different floor of the headquarters to work.

When the war ended, a select group of Girl Guides were taken by the British delegation to France for the peace treaty deliberations where they ran errands and delivered messages to the parties involved. After the peace treaty was signed, the girls returned home. Yet, very few talked about their time with the MI5 or their contributions toward winning the war.

Have you ever heard of Girl Guides before? Were you in Girl Scouts?

Multi-published author Patty Smith Hall lives near the North Georgia Mountains with her husband, Danny. When she’s not writing on her back porch, she’s spending time with her family or working in her vegetable garden.

A Cowboy of Her Own by Patty Smith Hall

Bookish southern belle Madalyn Turner knows what she wants—to be a cowboy and own a Texas ranch. But books are far different from real life and soon she realizes she needs help.

     

      

George Washington, Spymaster

By J. M. Hochstetler

I’m currently toiling away on Refiner’s Fire, book 6 of my American Patriot Series set during the American Revolution. In this installment Elizabeth Howard has been whisked off to France to keep her out of the hands of British secret agents out to kill her. Meanwhile, Jonathan Carleton, also known as the Shawnee war chief White Eagle, is far out in Ohio Territory involved in frustrating negotiations with his tribe to support the Americans instead of the British or at least stay neutral in the war. As in previous volumes of the series, there’s lots of intrigue and spying—which was serious business on both sides during the Revolution, just as it is in all wars.

Nathan Hale by Frederick MacMonnies
City Hall Park, New York 

When George Washington took command of the rebel army besieging Boston after the battles of Lexington and Concord, he discovered that his new force was poorly trained, badly staffed, and lacking in supplies, equipment, and funds. To have any hope of beating the British, he would have to learn in advance as much of their military plans and movements as possible. In other words, he was going to need spies, double agents, and secret informants, and plenty of them. The British already had spy networks galore among the patriots, so he didn’t waste time setting things in motion. He took command at Cambridge on July 3, 1775, and on the 15th he paid an unidentified spy $333.33 “to go into the town of Boston; to establish a secret correspondence for the purpose of conveying intelligence of the Enemy’s movements and designs.”

Benjamin Tallmadge

Perhaps the most widely known spy of the Revolution was Nathan Hale, a Yale graduate and teacher who served in Knowlton’s Rangers. In September 1776 he volunteered for a mission ordered by Washington to slip behind enemy lines in New York City and gather much-needed intelligence—only to be quickly captured and hanged. Much more successful was another Continental officer Washington enlisted, Benjamin Tallmadge, who had been a close friend of Hale’s. If you’ve watched the series Turn on AMC, you’re familiar with the most famous of Washington’s spy rings—the Culper Ring—though facts are few and far between in this inventive re-imagination of history. Tallmadge was the mastermind behind the Culper Ring, recruiting both soldiers and civilians into what became one of the most effective espionage networks of the American Revolution. In 1780 its members uncovered British plans to ambush French troops en route to aid the Continentals, allowing Washington to prepare a defense that forced the British to change their plans. The ring also identified Major John Andre as a British spy and through him exposed the treachery of Benedict Arnold.

Culper Ring Code Book

The Culper Ring was only one of Washington’s spy networks, which involved merchants, ordinary laborers, farmers, and women, among others. Their success was crucial to the eventual defeat of the British. In addition, Congress passed resolutions that directed military intelligence operations in a number of directions as well. To maintain the greatest secrecy, spies were provided with code names and aliases, cipher codes, invisible ink, dead drops, and even such methods as posting “codes” on clotheslines and messages concealed in balls of knitting yarn. Washington also spread disinformation and fake intelligence about military movements and attacks on specific forts by sending messages via regular post so they could be intercepted and using “deserters” who offered “intelligence” to the British.

Washington essentially laid the groundwork for today’s intelligence organizations by recognizing that gathering information was just as important as building a powerful army. Without the efforts of Washington and his spies, our Revolution might have had a very different outcome. As Major George Beckwith, a British intelligence officer, noted: “Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us.”

I love tales of spies and intrigue, which is probably why I write them. But honestly, I have to wonder whether I’d have the courage to become a spy. Do you enjoy those kinds of stories too? Have you ever wondered what you would do if our country were under direct attack by an enemy and people you loved depended on you to protect them?

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J. M. Hochstetler is the daughter of Mennonite farmers and a lifelong student of history. She is also an author, editor, and publisher. Her American Patriot Series is the only comprehensive historical fiction series on the American Revolution. Northkill, Book 1 of the Northkill Amish Series coauthored with Bob Hostetler, won Foreword Magazine’s 2014 Indie Book of the Year Bronze Award for historical fiction. Book 2, The Return, received the 2017 Interviews and Reviews Silver Award for Historical Fiction. One Holy Night, a contemporary retelling of the Christmas story, was the Christian Small Publishers 2009 Book of the Year.

The Secret History of US Spies

by Tamera Lynn Kraft


The United States has been in the spy business since before it became a nation. It all began with Nathan Hale, America's first spy. Now there are many spy organizations in the United States government with the CIA being the most well known.

America's First Spy: Nathan Hale is considered America's first spy. He wasn't really the first spy, but he was the first to be executed as a spy. He volunteered for a dangerous mission into New York City to spy upon the British. Unfortunately he was caught and hanged. Reportedly his last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Revolutionary Spies: Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere are amoung the most well-known spies of the Revolutionary War, but there were many spy rings. The biggest was the Culpepper Spy Ring in New York. Major Benjamin Tallmadge recruited Caleb Brewster and Abraham Woodhull (code name Samuel Culpepper) to gather intelligence on the British. Historians still don't know the identity of some of the spies in that ring, only their code names.  One piece of intellegence the Culpepper Ring gathered was the betrayal of Benedict Arnold and his secret meeting with John Andre.

Washington's Secret Service: George Washington, our first president understood the importance of intelligence gathering. One of his first acts as president was to work with the Congress to establish the Secret Service which comprised 10% of the federal budget. A few years later, Thomas Jefferson used the Secret Service to overthrow the government in a small North African country to stop Barbary pirate from raiding US ships. Madison used spies to influence the Spanish to relinquish Florida. Congress tried to oversee the secret fund, President Polk insisted that emergencies require oversight to be the prerogative of the president.

Civil War: During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate armies were involved in spying. They used the first spy satellites, hot air balloons, to record movements of the enemy troops. Neither side had an organized intelligence gathering organization run by their governments. The Union contracted
Allen Pinkerton and Lafayette Baker. The South had many individuals involved in spying including three infamous women: Rose Greenhow, Belle Boyd, and Nancy Hart.

First Formal Spy Agencies: The first formal US spy agencies were formed in the 1880s. They were the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Army’s Military Intelligence Division. They were involved heavily in the Spanish-American War in 1898. The Secret Service was still in operation but was in charge of domestic counter-intelligence only. The Secret Service broke up a Spanish spy ring in Montreal during the war.

World War I: US spy agencies had suffered greatly from budget cuts until World War I when the National Security Agency was established as a department of the US Army. The Secret Service, the New York Police Department, and military counterintelligence also were involved in intellegence and stopped German spying inside the United States. Another significant organization to be created during the First World War was the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation (later called FBI) which enforced the first US Espionage Act of 1917.

World War II: As the Nazis rose in power, the US put it's energy into code breaking and intellegence gathering on Germany and Japan. The Black Chamber Organization was formed to do that.  As the war drew closer, President Roosevelt established a new spy organization in 1941 called the Office of the Coordinator of Information to organize the activities of the various spy organizations. After the failure to detect the Japanese plot to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt dissolved the OCI and established the wartime organization, the Office of Strategic Services. The OSS and FBI worked closely with the Armed Services spy organizations to do intelligence gathering throughout the war.

Cold War: The OSS was abolished when the war ended in October, 1945 by President Truman, but it soon became obvious another central intelligence organization was needed. In January, 1946, Truman and others planned out the new spy organization called the Central Intelligence Group. This group had access and oversight of all foreign intelligence gathering and spying. The CIG also functioned under the direction of a National Intelligence Authority, composed of a presidential representative and the secretaries of State, War, and the Navy. In 1947, the National Security Act disbanded the CIG and the National Intelligence Authority and replaced them with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency forming our modern day spying organizations.

Tamera Lynn Kraft has always loved adventures and writes Christian historical fiction set in America because there are so many adventures in American history. She has received 2^nd place in the NOCW contest, 3^rd place TARA writer’s contest, and was a finalist in the Frasier Writing Contest. Her novel Alice’s Notions and novellas Resurrection of Hope and A Christmas Promise are available on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble.

BOOK GIVEAWAY AND SPIES IN HOOP SKIRTS (PART IV)

ANNE GREENE here: This fourth part of my series ends with other lady spies, first Confederate spies and then Union spies. I so hope you’ve enjoyed this series. If so, I’d love to hear from you.

Hundreds of women served as spies for the Confederate army during the Civil War. They often carried information about the enemy's plans, troop size and fortifications on scraps of paper or fabric which they sewed into their blouses and petticoats or rolled into their hair. To smuggle goods such as morphine, ammunition or weapons, they attached them to the frame of their hoop skirts or hid them in baskets and packages, even inside dolls.

Most women spies volunteered for the job, but some were recruited by spymasters. Most fit this description: lady spies were young, white, well-to-do and unmarried, as well as attractive, charming, intelligent, and quick-witted. They by-passed society’s strict rules by meeting men in various locations, and riding horses and in buggies unaccompanied.

Apprehended Confederate women spies were often branded as prostitutes unless their reputations were strong enough to protect them. Punishment for the crime of espionage was imprisonment or deportation to Canada or the South. Male spies were hanged.

Confederate lady spies often gathered information from Union troops who, when occupying southern towns, invited local women to army-sponsored balls, where they would sometimes talk about their military plans, not realizing the potential for espionage.

These women spies eavesdropped on soldiers during dinner parties, at boarding houses where the soldiers stayed, or gathered information from their friends and connections in southern society.

Although it was important for spies to keep a low profile while they worked, once they were detected or released from prison, spies like BELLE BOYD became instant celebrities after the press published their stories.

Belle was born into a Virginia family with strong Southern loyalties. A celebrated beauty, Isabelle Belle Boyd became one of the Confederacy’s most notorious spies after a skirmish with a drunken Union soldier in July 1861. The man invaded her home, tore down a Confederate flag, and spoke offensively to her mother. Enraged, the seventeen-year-old Belle shot and killed him. Acquitted of the crime, but closely watched by Union troops, she beguiled her enemies into revealing military secrets, which she transmitted to Confederate commanders.

In May 1862 Belle stayed in Fort Royal, Virginia, with relatives whose hotel had been taken over by Union officers. She

eavesdropped on their meetings through a hole in a door and rode through enemy lines, to report to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Imprisoned that July in Washington, D.C., she was released a month later. A second incarceration the following year ended with her banishment to the South.

Belle sailed for England in May 1864 to serve as a Confederate courier but was intercepted by Union troops. One of them, a naval officer named Samuel Hardinge, fell in love with the alluring spy and helped her escape to London, where they wed. He died shortly thereafter. Belle, now a widow and mother at 20, remained in England to compose her memoirs and launch a successful stage career. She later returned to America, where she continued acting, married twice more and lectured on her wartime experiences across the United States.

MARY KATE PATTERSON was no so famous. When the Civil War began she was sixteen. Mary Kate and her family lived a few miles southeast of Nashville, Tennessee. Vivacious Mary Kate, with flashing brown eyes and dark brown curls, attended old Elliott School in Nashville, Tennessee. Declaration of war between the North and South interrupted her education, but the contacts she made in school were invaluable during her service as a Confederate spy.

The Federal army occupied Nashville early in the war. Mary Kate provided information to Coleman's Scouts, a spy network of the Army of Tennessee. She befriended Yankees officers and frequently obtained passes to Nashville, where she gathered secret messages and supplies for the Scouts and hid them in her buggy's false bottom.

Mary Kate smuggled boots, blankets, and anything needed by the Confederate army through the lines, concealing quinine and morphine in her voluminous riding habits. She admitted after the war, when it was too late for reprisal, that she had carried six hundred dollars’ worth of medicine in just one trip. She and her family sheltered and fed Confederate soldiers, signaling them by a certain arrangement of louvers and lanterns in the windows when it was safe to come in for medical help and hot meals.

Widowed three times, when she died in 1931, she was buried in the Confederate Circle in Nashville's Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the first woman so honored.

BELLE EDMONDSON, born in Mississippi in 1840, served as a Confederate agent throughout the war. In 1862 after the fall of Memphis, she smuggled supplies and funds to the Confederate army. Her love of the South and of danger attracted her to spying, carrying mail and smuggling. In 1863, she worked for the Independent Scouts, headed by Captain Thomas Henderson.

She lived near Memphis, Tennessee and smuggled supplies to Confederate soldiers throughout the war. In 1864, since soldiers did not search women, she hid uniforms, money, buttons, letters, etc. in her luggage and on her clothing and took them through Union lines.

Belle’s trips eventually attracted the attention of Union forces and they issued a warrant for her arrest. In July 1864, she fled south to Mississippi and lived there for the rest of the war. She was engaged three times. The third was announced two weeks before her sudden death in 1873.And finally, I want to speak of two Union spies who did not fit the profile of lady spies.

PAULINE CUSHMAN was a stage actress who later became a spy for the Union army. Born Harriett Wood in New Orleans on June 10, 1833, Pauline was raised in Michigan, but returned to Louisiana at age eighteen to became a stage actress, changing her name to Pauline Cushman.

Two Confederate soldiers, Colonel Spear and Captain Blincoe, offered Pauline money to toast Confederate President Jefferson Davis during a performance.

Offended, she visited Union Colonel Moore to report the men. Moore directed Pauline to carry out the toast, hoping to embed her as a local Union spy.

She toasted Davis and was promptly fired from the production, since they now believed her to be a Confederate sympathizer.

Since she had successfully gained the trust of the local Confederates, Pauline began posing as a Confederate camp follower in Kentucky and Tennessee. She disguised herself as a man while gathering information from soldiers in local saloons.

After visiting the camp of General Braxton Bragg in May of 1863, Pauline obtained the general’s battle plans, but aroused suspicion and was caught. She was tried in a military court and sentenced to death. But her execution was delayed when she became ill.

Shortly after, the Union army invaded Shelbyville, Tennessee, where she was being held, forcing the Confederates to flee without her.

Despite her brush with death, Pauline continued to spy for the Union army. At war’s end, President Abraham Lincoln awarded her the honorary rank of Brevet-Major, earning her the nickname “The Spy of Cumberland.” She was buried with military honors in the Golden Gate National Cemetery.

HARRIET TUBMAN set up a vast spy ring in the south, sending African-American men to pose as servants in order to gather intelligence for the Union army.

One of the most celebrated heroines in American history, Harriet Tubman is best known for ushering slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. But not everyone knows that the courageous Harriet, who escaped slavery in 1849, set up the vast espionage ring.

In early 1862, with the support of abolitionist friends in the North, Harriet traveled to South Carolina, where she served as a nurse and teacher for the hundreds of newly liberated slaves who had assembled in Union camps. She recruited black men to slip behind Confederate lines, posing as servants or slaves to gather military intelligence. She organized dangerous missions in which Union troops destroyed plantations and spirited former slaves to freedom on warships. In June 1863, Harriet led an armed expedition along the Combahee River, disrupting Confederate supply lines and liberating more than seven hundred slaves. Later in life, Harriet became a key figure in the suffrage movement.

Which of the Civil War Spies In Hoop Skirts did you like the most? Would you have liked to have lived during that historic period? Do you prefer the freedom of today’s clothing styles or the beauty and romance of the styles of the 1860s? Leave a comment for a chance to win an autographed copy of Angel With Steel Wings.

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ANGEL WITH STEEL WINGS is a World War II romance where Steel Magnolias meet Band of Brothers. While doing her part test flying planes as a Woman Air Service Pilot, WASP, Mandy McCabe escapes her dead-end life in Hangman’s Hollow, Tennessee. But, can she escape from her past? Major Harvey Applegate lost his wife to the WASP program, and he’s convinced Yankee Doodle Gals have no place flying in the war effort. He determines to protect the remaining WASPs by sending them packing back to the home front. Both Mandy and Harvey experience immediate attraction, which increases Harvey’s desire to send Mandy home to safety. Can a man burdened with memories of death undertake added emotional danger? Will their new love survive the test? One love. Two goals. Someone has to give.

ANNE GREENE delights in writing about alpha heroes who aren’t afraid to fall on their knees in prayer, and about gutsy heroines. Her Women of Courage Series, first book, ANGEL WITH STEEL WINGS spotlights heroic women of World War II, and read her private investigating series, Handcuffed In Texas, first book HOLLY GARDEN, PI, RED IS FOR ROOKIE. Enjoy her other award-winning historical romances and novellas. Anne’s highest hope is that her stories transport the reader to an awesome new world and touch hearts to seek a deeper spiritual relationship with the Lord Jesus. Buy Anne’s books on http://www.Amazon.com. Type in Anne Greene. Visit Anne at AnneGreeneAuthor.com.