Operatives, spies, and saboteurs
Subtitle: the unknown story of the men and women of World War II's OSS
By: Patrick K. O'Donnell.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780743235723
Subjects: United States. Office of Strategic Services; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States; World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe, Western
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Spy school; title: R&D and "The campus"; title: Intrigue in North Africa and Iberia; title: Up the boot; title: On Hitler's doorstep, the OSS in Switzerland; title: Into the Balkans, Yugoslavia and Albania; title: "SMASHEM", Greece; title: From frogmen to SEALs, the OSS Maritime Unit (MU); title: Infiltrating France; title: Paving the way for Overlord; title: Dragoon; title: X-2, counterespionage; title: Approaching the Reich; title: Catastrophe in Czechoslovakia; title: Psych Ops, Morale Operations (MO) and origins of psychological warfare; title: Penetrating the Reich; title: Backroom negotiations, Sweden and Norway; title: Northern Italy; title: Final missions and conclusion; title: Glossary