The shadow war against Hitler
Subtitle: the covert operations of America's wartime secret intelligence service
By: Christoph Mauch ; translated from the German by Jeremiah M. Riemer.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: United States. Office of Strategic Services; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
Description: "Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of the famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs, and traitors are the actors in this new strategy." Having identified a new type of war - a shadow war - being perpetrated by Hitler's Germany, FDR decided to fight fire with fire, authorizing the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an extensive analysis of OSS records, including the vast trove of records released by the CIA in the 1980s and '90s, as well as a new set of interviews with OSS veterans conducted by the author and a team of American scholars from 1995 to 1997, The Shadow War Against Hitler is the full story of America's far-flung secret intelligence apparatus during World War II."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. ([307]-324) and index.