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Author : Edward Hymoff
Release : 1986
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The OSS in World War II by : Edward Hymoff
Download or read book The OSS in World War II written by Edward Hymoff. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maochun Yu
Release : 2011-11-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 590/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis OSS in China by : Maochun Yu
Download or read book OSS in China written by Maochun Yu. This book was released on 2011-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II. Drawing on recently released classified materials from the U.S. National Archives and on previously unopened Chinese documents, Yu reveals the immense and complex challenges the agency and its director, General William Donovan, confronted in China. This book is the first research-based history and analysis of America's wartime intelligence and special operations activities in the China, Burma and India during WWII. It presents a complex and compelling story of conflicting objectives and personalities, inter-service rivalries, and crowning achievements of America's military, intelligence and political endeavors, the significance of which goes far beyond WWII and China.
Author : Wayne Nelson
Release : 2009-10-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 776/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Spy's Diary of World War II by : Wayne Nelson
Download or read book A Spy's Diary of World War II written by Wayne Nelson. This book was released on 2009-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the wartime diary of Wayne Nelson, an OSS officer who served in North Africa and Europe during World War II. A prewar colleague of Allen Dulles, Nelson joined an infant OSS after failing to join the Navy because of a vision disability, and he went on to serve in North Africa, Sicily, Sardinia, Italy, Corsica, and mainland France. Erudite and a skilled writer, Nelson captured intriguing observations about some of the most important spy operations of the war, and his diary entries offer a thrilling, readable and informative glimpse into the life of a spy during World War II.
Author : Susan Heuck Allen
Release : 2011-10-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 662/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Classical Spies by : Susan Heuck Allen
Download or read book Classical Spies written by Susan Heuck Allen. This book was released on 2011-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected.” —William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Classical Spies is the first insiders’ account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew on scholars’ personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spies disclosesevents where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee, and organizing parachute drops. Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars, such archaeologists as University of Pennsylvania’s Rodney Young, Cincinnati’s Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen, Yale’s Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr’s Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret documents, private diaries and letters, and personal photographs, Classical Spies offers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II.
Author : George C. Chalou
Release : 1995-12
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Book Rating : 980/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Secret War by : George C. Chalou
Download or read book The Secret War written by George C. Chalou. This book was released on 1995-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the first major scholarly conference on the OSS, which was in existence from 1941 through 1945. Includes 24 papers presented by veterans and historians of the OSS. Offers new insights into the activities and importance of the U.S.'s first modern national intelligence agency. Discusses: the U.S. on the brink of war; the operations of the OSS at the headquarters level and in the field throughout Western Europe, the Balkans, and Asia. Also explores the legacy of the OSS. Contributors include: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., William Colby, Walt W. Rostow, Robin Winks, and Aline, Countess of Romanones.
