{"product_id":"defying-the-nazis-the-sharps-war","title":"Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor readers captivated by the story of Antonina Zabinski as told inand The Zookeeper's Wifeand and other stories of rescue missions during WWII,and Defying the Nazisand is an essential read.In 1939, the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: they were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Seventeen ministers had been asked to undertake this mission and had declined; Rev. Sharp was the first to accept the call for volunteers in Europe.Armed with only $40,000, Waitstill and Martha quickly learned the art of spy craft and undertook dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II. After narrowly avoiding the Gestapo themselves, the Sharps returned to Europe in 1940 as representatives of the newly formed Unitarian Service Committee and continued their relief efforts in Vichy France.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44235949834300,"sku":"9780807013021","price":1497.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9780807013021.jpg?v=1776787679","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/defying-the-nazis-the-sharps-war","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}