Fighting Dirty
Subtitle: The Inside Story of Covert Operations From Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden (Cassell Military Paperback)
Edition: 2nd Edition edition
Publisher: Cassell; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780304364688
Subjects: Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; War & defence operations; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; History - Military / War; Military; Military - General; History / Military / Other
First sentence: At 3.30 p.m. on 20 September 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order abolishing the United States's wartime intelligence and unconventional warfare organisation, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).