next we have a hildegard von berkshire. she is in the middle flanked by her parents.her mother olga, and her father friedrich who is the not see military attachÉ. she was born in germany, went in the fall of 41 she began her senior year of college. a year that did not turn out quite the way it might. our last main character is gwen terrorists sake. despite her last name, she is an american married to a japanese diplomat. obviously my magic touch -- it's back. on a summer day in 1941, she is at a small airport in eastern tennessee. a stones throw from where she grew up. she is waiting for her husband. and while she is there she strikes up a conversation with a stranger. something we have all done at airports to pass the time. she tells them her husband travels so much on business, i mean this trip alone he has been gone for six weeks. and he's flown over 20000 miles, remember this is 1941 flying that amount of miles is pretty extraordinary. so there's a happy reunion and off they go. what gwen doesn't know, and will never know, is that the man she was talking to was a