Under Two Flags: A Novel of World War I

She sewed her country's flag into her skirt hem and sailed straight into enemy territory.

Josephine is a daughter of immigrants with a mezzo-soprano dream and nowhere left to go. When a letter arrives offering her a chance to study at a prestigious Berlin conservatory, she does not hesitate. She crosses a U-boat-haunted Atlantic and steps into a city bristling with ration cards, propaganda, and suspicion.

But war has a way of closing in. As an American in wartime Germany, every word she speak...