Sub Rosa (ePub)
The O. S. S. and American Espionage
(Sprache: Englisch)
A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America's precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II.
Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the...
Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the...
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A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America's precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II.
Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William "Wild Bill" Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by Germany's Nazi aggressors. Paratroopers Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden-both of whom would become important political columnists in postwar years-became part of Wild Bill's able collection of soldiers, spies, and covert operatives. Sub Rosa is an enthralling insider's history of the remarkable intelligence operation that gave birth to the CIA.
In Sub Rosa, Alsop and Braden take readers on a breathtaking journey through the birth and development of the top secret wartime espionage organization and detail many of the extraordinary OSS missions in France, Germany, Dakar and Casablanca in North Africa, and in the jungles of Burma that helped to hasten the end of the Japanese Empire and the fall of Adolf Hitler's powerful Reich.
As exciting as any international thriller written by Eric Ambler or Graham Greene, Alsop and Braden's Sub Rosa is an indispensable addition to the literary history of American espionage and intelligence.
Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William "Wild Bill" Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by Germany's Nazi aggressors. Paratroopers Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden-both of whom would become important political columnists in postwar years-became part of Wild Bill's able collection of soldiers, spies, and covert operatives. Sub Rosa is an enthralling insider's history of the remarkable intelligence operation that gave birth to the CIA.
In Sub Rosa, Alsop and Braden take readers on a breathtaking journey through the birth and development of the top secret wartime espionage organization and detail many of the extraordinary OSS missions in France, Germany, Dakar and Casablanca in North Africa, and in the jungles of Burma that helped to hasten the end of the Japanese Empire and the fall of Adolf Hitler's powerful Reich.
As exciting as any international thriller written by Eric Ambler or Graham Greene, Alsop and Braden's Sub Rosa is an indispensable addition to the literary history of American espionage and intelligence.
Autoren-Porträt von Stewart Alsop, Thomas Braden
Stewart Alsop (1914-1974) was a longtime political columnist and commentator on American affairs. A graduate of Yale University, he worked in book publishing until World War II. Rejected by the US Army for medical reasons, he joined the British Army and fought with the King's Royal Rifle Corps in Italy. He transferred to the US Army in 1944 to carry out missions planned by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-the topic of his book Sub Rosa, written with OSS compatriot Thomas Braden. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm for his work on wartime missions in France.From 1945 to 1958, Stewart Alsop was cowriter, with his elder brother Joseph Alsop, of the thrice-weekly "Matter of Fact" column for the New York Herald Tribune. He went on to become the Washington editor of the Saturday Evening Post and wrote a weekly column for Newsweek from 1968 until his death in 1974. His final book, Stay of Execution, traces the years-his last-after his diagnosis with a rare form of leukemia.
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- Autoren: Stewart Alsop , Thomas Braden
- 2016, 237 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1480446017
- ISBN-13: 9781480446014
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2016
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