Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945
Barry Katz's history of the Research and Analysis Branch of O.S.S. in World War II reveals how surprisingly useful a group of historians and social scientists proved to be in war, and the impact of this taste of the real world on a select band of scholars, both exercises in intellectual history. As a participant in these doings some forty-odd years ago, I was amazed how much more a historian can know from archives and interviews than the players remember. A lively and informative book. (Charles P. Kindleberger)