Episode 651-Interview w/ Nick Reynolds & Katie Sanders: Ortiz's War
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Episode 651-Interview w/ Nick Reynolds & Katie Sanders: Ortiz's War

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 3, 202654 min
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  • History

Peter Ortiz had an incredible life including the French Foreign Legion, the US Marines and the OSS. Using his experience he will help organize the French Resistance who is getting ready for D-Day. This episode is sponsored by Coveron. One scam can cost you everything. Protect yourself now. The first 100 users get 20% off with code thehistory20 at coveron.com/thehistory20. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast. I'm your host, Ray Harris, and with me today is Nicholas Reynolds and Katie Sanders as we talk about their book, Ortiz's War, the Allies' secret weapon against the Nazis in France.

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Nicholas Reynolds, a retired Marine Corps colonel, holds a PhD in from Oxford University, and has served as a historian for both the Marine Corps and the CIA Museum. His most recent book was Need to Know World War II

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and the Rise of American Intelligence, which is my next read. And Katie Sanders is an award-winning journalist who has written for National Geographic,

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