News and Reviews
I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy.
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Juliana Geran Pilon in New English Review
“Testimony from Hell”. “A sepia-colored photograph of a handsome young man dominates the cover of I Am André. A warm yet slightly mischievous smile mirrors his kind eyes which seem filled with an ocean of unshed tears…..”
https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/testimony-from-hell/
Also published in 3/5/25 National Security News and Commentary
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Abby W. Schahter: What Real Resistance Looks Like
The book is filled with amazing details about André’s exploits as a creative thinker who uses his understanding of the German mindset against his oppressors. Over and over, throughout his survival story he embodies the virtues of quick thinking, flexibility, and ingenuity. And he holds fast to the conviction that helping others to survive with him is one of the greatest acts of resistance to Nazi tyranny.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/what-real-resistance-looks-like/
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An Interview with Diana Mara Henry, Author of “I Am André, German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy”
Thank you, Fern Sidman!
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Mel B. Yoken, Ph.D. Chancellor Professor Emeritus of French language and Literature French Legion of Honor University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
I AM ANDRE. German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy is a recently published book by Chiselbury Publishing, written by award-wining journalist, Holocaust scholar and researcher Diana Mara Henry. It is, succinctly stated, one of the most significant books ever published on espionage in World War II, and deserves to be read, studied and discussed by all who are interested in this all-important subject.
The book is absorbing and compelling, deeply moving, fascinating and, above all, thoroughly honest. The riveting historical pageant celebrates ways how heroism, faith, fortitude and goals achieved truly count for something. In this richly detailed book, there are chapters that are not only engaging and anecdotal, but are also the most spellbinding and theatrical accounts of the Second World War that I have read in years! This is just not another war story. It is a masterpiece filled with every emotion possible, such as joy and sorrow, grief and triumph, sadness and happiness.
Andre, born Joseph Scheinmann in Munich in 1915, is Andre Joseph Scheinmann, a New Bedford, Massachusetts resident from 1951 to his death in 20011. Born in Munich in 1915, he was a German Jew and French Army soldier turned French resistance fighter.. As an Mi6 agent he was at the fulcrum of the jockeying of French and British secret services for the earliest, nearly unknown earliest French networks, 1940-1942. in espionage and was a hero par excellence throughout the Second World War. Henry’s monumental, extremely developed biography details his life, and gives the reader an absolutely sterling perspective of every aspect of Scheinmann’s action and struggle, from beginning to end. to maintain integrity, undercover of another identity. He was a hero par excellence throughout the Second World War, even in Gestapo prisons and in concentration camps Natzweiler and Dachau.
The impact of Henry’s exegesis of Scheinmann resonates far beyond the pages of this book. It enhances our understanding of World War II and all its intracacies.This oeuvre, which is also richly illustrated, enriches our understanding of one man and what he did to make us understand what truly constitutes quintessential heroism. For this and more, Henry deserves praise par excellence, and I AM ANDRE. German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy deserves a place in the Pantheon of impressive, invaluable books that will most certainly live on forever. -
I Am André: Story of a Mensch at War Diana Mara Henry’s Book Celebrates One Man’s Inspiring Victory Over the Nazi Horrors of World War II
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