History Happy Hour

This Week on History Happy Hour: Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris create a daring escape line that rescues dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other returns to America and writes a bestselling book about it that also became a sensational movie. But there is far more to the story.

Our guest, Matthew Goodman, author of the book Paris Undercover, has dug up military records and personal testimonies that reveal, for the first time, the shocking truth behind the memoir and the unexpected, far-reaching consequences of its publication.

We’ll dig into it Sunday at 4 PM on History Happy Hour, where history is always on tap.

Matthew Goodman is a New York Times-bestselling author of five books. They include The City Game: The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team and Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The American Scholar, the Harvard Review, Salon, Tablet, the Forward, Bon Appetit, and many other publications. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, NY.