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portada wild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionage
wild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionagewild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionagewild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionagewild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionage
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Physical Book
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Publisher
Topic
military; military - world war ii; military - united states
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.3x14x3 cm
Weight
0.43 kg.
ISBN
1416576207
ISBN13
9781416576204
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wild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionage

Douglas Waller (Author) · Free Press · Paperback

wild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionage - Waller, Douglas

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Synopsis "wild bill donovan: the spymaster who created the oss and modern american espionage"

"Entertaining history...Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkable wartime leader but also an extraordinary figure in American history" (The New York Times Book Review). He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals--the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan's relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage. Wild Bill Donovan reads like an action-packed spy thriller, with stories of daring young men and women in the OSS sneaking behind enemy lines for sabotage, breaking into Washington embassies to steal secrets, plotting to topple Adolf Hitler, and suffering brutal torture or death when they were captured by the Gestapo. It is also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government, of powerful men pitted against one another. Separating fact from fiction, Waller investigates the successes and the occasional spectacular failures of Donovan's intelligence career. It makes for a gripping and revealing portrait of this most controversial spymaster.

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