Woman Who Fought an Empire

<p><strong>Finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Biography</strong></p><p></p><p>Though she only lived to be twenty-seven Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. <em>The Woman Who Fought an Empire</em> tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring.</p><p>Amid the outbreak of World War I Aaronsohn learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili an anti-Turkish spy ring to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Aaronsohn who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. She joined Nili eventually rising to become the organization's leader and she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. <em>The Woman Who Fought an Empire</em> set at the birth of the modern Middle East is an espionage thriller that rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femmes fatales. </p><p></p><p><strong>Gregory J. Wallance</strong> is a lawyer and writer in New York City a former federal prosecutor and a longtime human rights activist. He is the author of <em>America's Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust FDR's State Department and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy</em> and <em>Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal Frozen Heart of Russia</em>. Wallance has written op-eds for the <em>New York Times</em> <em>USA Today</em> and the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and is a contributor for <em>The Hill</em>.</p><p></p>