Over the last 72 years, the media often connotes the actions of infamous women to the name “Axis Sally”.  But who was she? Currently, two current movies “Brothers in Arms” and Spike Lee's “Miracle at St. Anna” recreate some of the deeds of Axis Sally,  but tells us nothing about the person? Type the name “Axis Sally” on Google, Yahoo or any of the search engines and hundreds of snippets will appear, but none really answer the question, who was she? Look up “Axis Sally” or her birth name Mildred Gillars on any encyclopedia and a laundry list of transgressions. But who really was she?

Enter the world of young Mildred Gillars. The year is 1925. An out of control stock market charges ahead, making even the most naïve investors wealthy. Do-gooders and religious fanatics blame drink as the root of all evil, and pressure Congress into passing laws prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol. Overnight the United States became “Dry”. This “Prohibition” only gave rise to a rebellious thirst. “Gangsters” grew rich selling "bootleg" liquor. Local police were easily bribed. Women started wearing less, experience more and calling themselves 'Flappers'. The newly discovered sound of New Orleans Jazz started the nation dancing 'informally'. America's Roaring Twenties was loosening the bounds of it's moral fiber.

By the fall of 1929 the "Roar" became a whimper. The Stock Market collapsed.  Overnight the “newly rich” became the “newly destitute”. Banks and businesses closed.  America’s economy was all but destroyed; the nation slipped into what would become its worst and longest depression. Most of the men were unemployed and for the women, decent employment was somewhat hopeless. Mildred Gillars, seeing no future for herself in this depression-ravaged America, bought a ticket to a place where everybody didn't move and think and move in slow motion. There, Mildred Gillars made the journey from obscurity to celebrity as she balanced on the edge in a world of deception and destruction becoming Axis Sally, one of the most notorious women of the 20th Century.

Author M. Williams Fuller presented the story of Mildred Gillers in a unique fashion. Rather than use the format of a biography, she restructured probable dialog. In doing so, Fuller sets the stage of the era. Then brings the characters to life on that stage to present a story  that grabs the reader and holds on. 

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