Katie Sanders and Helen Fry
A Secret Agent for the Allies against the Nazis in France

Katie S. Sanders is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, TIME, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair, among others. Her reporting has taken her to the CIA, the White House, and into the homes of many World War II veterans and Holocaust survivors. After she discovered that her late grandfather, a Jewish-American pilot shot down over France on an OSS mission, had been rescued by Peter Ortiz, she teamed up with Reynolds to write Ortiz’s War. Her book can be purchased here: Harper Collins. She lives in Brookline, MA with her husband, sons, and many books. Follow her at @katieSsanders and @ortizswarbook or subscribe to her free Substack newsletter, Stories for the Record.

About Ortiz’s War: Behind enemy lines in wartime France, American Marine Peter Ortiz blew up Nazi railyards, kept one step ahead of the Gestapo, and braved frigid mountain trails to shuttle downed Allied airmen to safety. Ortiz emerged from World War II with more combat medals than any other member of America’s first spy agency, the OSS. Post-war, he worked with his good buddy John Ford and acted alongside John Wayne in Hollywood, appearing in more than two dozen films (at times donning his military uniform). His own life story could rival any of them.