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* Reisen Sie ab, Mademoiselle! Author-Adrienne Thomas--Publisher - C.V.ALERT DE LANGE , Amsterdam 1947 -387 pages -Subjects Fiction ' Alternative History Fiction / Alternative History..Adrienne Thomas was the pseudonym of Hertha A. Deutsch, nee Strauch (1897–1980), a German autobiographical novelist... Hertha Strauch was born in St Avold in Alsace-Lorraine, then part of Germany, on June 24, 1897. Growing up bilingual - German & French, going to school in Metz, the family owned a small department store. During World War I she became a nurse for the Red Cross, at first in Metz & later in Berlin, where her family moved. During the 1920s she trained as a singer & actor at the Clara Lion Conservatory in Frankfurt.... Writing as Adrienne Thomas, she drew on her Red Cross experiences for her semi-autobiographical anti-war novel Die Katrin wird Soldat (Katrin Becomes a Soldier), the diary of a young Jewish girl serving behind the German lines as a relief worker. Published in 1930, the book was translated into sixteen languages. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 Thomas was forced to go into exile and her writings banned. After living in Austria, France & United States,settling in Vienna in 1947. Reisen Sie ab Mademoiselle 5748 FL LB2