Code Name ""Mary"": Memoirs of an American Women in the Austrian Underground

Muriel Gardiner. Yale University Press, $12 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04033-3

Born into a wealthy Chicago meat-packing family, Gardiner, a psychoanalyst and educator, here focuses on her years in Vienna after the Nazi Anschluss, when she aided Jews and others. PW stated that from this memoir, ""Gardiner proves to be a remarkable woman.'' (September)

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