Martha Albrand (Katrin Holland)
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Martha Albrand, born Heidi Huberta Freybe, was a German-American novelist. Albrand was the name of her Danish great-grandfather. For her books written in German and the German translations of her English books she used the name Katrin Holland. She was the sister of the actress Jutta Freybe and the writer Johanna Sibelius. The film Captain Carey, U.S.A. was based on her novel No Surrender. - Wikipedia
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From Kirkus Reviews, 8/22/43: "he author of No Surrender tailors another sleek tale of rebellion against the Axis, this time set in Rome, where Charles Brackett, American soldier, finds himself an Italian prisoner, held in an insane asylum, and tagged with a false identity as Da Ponte. At first he fights it, but eventually assumes the identity he had been given, and makes his way to Rome, there to locate an American married to an Italian, and finds she has been killed. He falls in love with her daughter -- realizes that she may form his link to other friends of the Allies -- and, when a mixup with the police has put him out of the picture, Sybilla carries on. He is railroaded back to the asylus -- and again escapes, with scant time to say goodbye to Sybilla and promise return.... A nice job, of the tenuous gestures of Italian friendship towards the Allies, of unfulfilled romance."
The door fell shut
Berlin, where U.S. agents await a defecting Soviet official who has mysteriously disappeared in the Eastern sector. Berlin, where a pampered young maestro with an aging mistress and a brilliant future is persuaded to play a spotlight role in a deadly little game of Who's Got the Spy. Berlin, twilight world of the Wall, where intrigue and espionage breed fear, suspicion and sudden death.