OSS Against the Reich: World War Two Diaries: The World War II Diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087338427X ISBN 13: 9780873384278

Publisher: Kent State University Press, 1991

Synopsis

OSS against the Reich presents the previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America's first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket attacks on England, and the liberation of Paris. As a top deputy of Wiliam J. ""Wild Bill"" Donovan, founder of the Office of Strategic Services, Bruce kept his diary sporadically in 1942 and made daily entries from the invasion of Normandy until the Battle of the Bulge. Bruce had served in World War I and, as Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, moved easily in the world of corporate and museum boardrooms and New York society. However, World War II gave him a more serious and satisfying purpose in life; the experience of running the OSS's most important overseas branch confirmed his lifelong interest in foreign service. After the war, in partnership with his second wife, Evangeline, Bruce headed the Marshall Plan in France and was ambassador to Paris, Bonn, and London. He further served as head of negotiations at the Paris peace talks on Vietnam, first American emissary to China, and ambassador to NATO.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kent State University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087338427X
• ISBN 13: 9780873384278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Lankford Nelson D.