Sub Rosa: The OSS and American Espionage

Alsop, Stewart and Braden, Thomas

Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946

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New York. 1946. Reynal & Hitchcock. 1st Printing. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With a Few Small Pieces Missing. 237 pages. hardcover. keywords: Espionage America History. DESCRIPTION - 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. inventory #12697 Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With a Few Small Pieces Missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sub Rosa: The OSS and American Espionage
• Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
• Publication Date: 1946
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Poor