LEADER 00000nam a22004211i 4500 001 frd00009180 003 CtWfDGI 005 20160510135553.0 006 m eo d 007 cr un ---anuuu 008 160510s2016 xx eo 000 0 eng d 020 9781480446014|q(e-pub) 024 3 9781480446014 040 CtWfDGI|beng|erda|cCtWfDGI 050 4 D810.S7 082 04 940.548673|223 100 1 Alsop, Stewart. 245 10 Sub Rosa :|bThe O. S. S. and American Espionage /|cStewart Alsop. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bOpen Road Media, |c[2016] 264 4 |c©2016 300 1 online resource (237 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 506 Access limited to subscribing institutions. 520 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. 538 System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. 588 0 Print version record. 610 10 United States.|bOffice of Strategic Services. 610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xSecret service|zUnited States. 650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage.|2bisacsh 655 0 Electronic books. 700 1 Braden, Thomas,|d1918-2009,|eauthor. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aAlsop, Stewart.|tSub rosa;|dNew York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1964]|w(DLC)64057431 914 frd00009180
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