The Welcome back, everyone, the 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries Podcast.

This is your host, John Haggardorn.

We have a very special guest and a very special book, a very special history in store for you

today. Our guest's name is Matthew Goodman. The name of the book is Paris Undercover. And as I do

with most of our interviews, I'll start up with the publicist inquiry, which usually sets it up very, very well.

On November 18th, I received this message from Katie Horn.

Hi, John.

I hope all is well with you.

Matthew Goodman, author of 80 Days, Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world,

and the city game,

Triumphs Scandal, and a legendary basketball team, returns this winter with Paris Undercover,

a wartime story of courage, friendship, and betrayal, Valentine Books.

Paris Undercover tells the thrilling true story of Edda Scheiber at Cape Boniface, two unlikely heroines who were early resistors to Nazi occupation in Paris.

The duo helped establish and operate an escape line that ran throughout France in the 1940s, rescuing dozens of Allied soldiers trapped behind enemy lines, going so far as to smuggle men through Nazi checkpoints hidden inside the trunk of Kate's car.

Think of the Underground Railroad, but in France.

Matthew, this book was a page turner, although many of us believe that we know the history of Paris and the resistance and the courageous people who tried to save others and through the Nazis chokehold that they had on France, these two women were really incredible people.

I'd like to introduce you to our show. How are you doing today?

I'm fine, John. Thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be here.

What inspired you to write this story? My immediate answer is always financial desperation

is what compels me to write these books. But in point of fact, you know, the kind of history

that I do is what I call narrative history, in the sense that it's all true.

Everything that's in the book is true.

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