She Was A WW II Photographer Behind Enemy Lines

Jeane Slone’s fourth acclaimed historical novel
Meet Lieutenant Adeline Peterson, war correspondent in eleven theaters of war — a brave, determined, and resilient woman who broke gender biases to photograph the world and document the atrocities of war.
•Caught in a Black Blizzard in Oklahoma, endured swarms of locusts
•Photographed Depression-era dance marathons, visited illegal speakeasies
•Detained by a Nazi officer under gunpoint in Czechoslovakia
•Fled Paris on foot and got caught in the Blitz in London
•Photographed the Nazi takeover of Greece
•Jailed in Belgrade by the Gestapo
•Photographed the first bomb to fall on Moscow
•Torpedoed at sea in North Africa in a convoy headed to war
•Hit by Junker planes in a B-17 Flying Fortress
•Stowed away on a hospital ship during D-Day and arrested for disobeying orders
•Witnessed machine-gun fire during the liberation of France
•Almost hit by Japanese snipers on Mt. Suribachi in Iwo Jima
•Arrested for disobeying orders during the battle of Okinawa
•First war correspondent to document the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
•Toured Mengele’s torture chambers after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
Witnessed Disease X after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki
Photographed refugees after the war for the Quakers.