Hitler's Secret (28 page)
Text copyright © 2013 by William Osborne
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2012 as
Hitler’s Angel
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While inspired by real events and historical characters, this novel is a work of fiction and does not claim to be historically accurate or portray factual events or relationships. Names, characters, places, and incidents are used fictitiously, and any real personalities included in the book and interactions with such real personalities are the result of the author’s imagination and purely fictional. Such real personalities or their representatives did not authorize this book and are not otherwise involved with this book in any way.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, William (William Hanslow), 1960–
[Hitler’s angel]
Hitler’s secret / William Osborne. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Originally published as: Hitler’s angel; Frome, England : Chicken House, (c) 2012.
Summary: In June 1941, Otto and Leni, two young refugees from the Nazis living in England, are sent on a secret mission to Bavaria, to extract a young girl attending a summer camp, and who may hold the key to the war.
ISBN 978-0-545-49646-9 1. World War, 1939–1945 — Refugees — Juvenile fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945 — Juvenile fiction. 3. Undercover operations — Juvenile fiction. [1. World War, 1939–1945 — Fiction. 2. Refugees — Fiction. 3. Undercover operations — Fiction. 4. Secrets — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.O8645Hit 2013
823.914–dc23
2012040706
First American edition, October 2013
Cover art by Steve Stone
Cover design by Yaffa Jaskoll
e-ISBN 978-0-545-57651-2
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