OSS Stories that can now be told Inscribed, signed by the author

Ringlesbach, Dorothy

ISBN 10: 1420815830 / ISBN 13: 9781420815832

Published by authorhouse, Bloomington, In, 2005

About this Item

Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. x, 112 pages, [3]. Black and white photograph section. The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) served as a complete volunteer unit in world War II. After 60 years most of the information was declassified from the government. This story is a collection of tales appearing for the first time. This copy is inscribed and signed on the right front flyleaf.

Seller Inventory # 32553

Bibliographic Details

• Title: OSS Stories that can now be told Inscribed, signed by the author
• Publisher: authorhouse, Bloomington, In
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1420815830
• ISBN 13: 9781420815832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography
  • Military & War

About this title

Synopsis

Have you heard about Raunchy? Who was he? Or how about the night the Cabbie sold two greenhorns cold tea in place of scotch? These are just two examples of why you should read this book You will not only find out more about the two above incidents, but you will also understand why the people in the OSS are still reluctant to talk much about those years. Why was there very little known about this group until much later after the war ended and this information was declassified? What made it the best-kept secret of WWII? Read this book and find out more about the OSS and what made it the best-kept secret.

About the Author

The author is a native of Ft. Wayne, Indiana, but a Virginia transplant. She graduated from Concordia High School in Ft. Wayne and was a member of the US Cadet Nurse Corps from 1944 to 1947 and received her RN degree from Indianapolis City Hospital in 1947.She has been writing since high school and everything from essays in high school to patient case studies in nursing to newsletters when she was State President of the Woman?s auxiliary to the Kentucky Medical Association. After moving to Williamsburg, Virginia she became an interpreter for Colonial Williamsburg before returning to nursing.In 1980 she married Jack Ringlesbach and moved to Germany shortly afterwards when the Government transferred him. She returned to her love for writing while over there writing for various newsletters.She has been published numerous times in the Virginia Gazette, the OSS Communications Vets newsletters, the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterlntelligence and other newsletters.She has five children, 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren who moved her to write some children?s stories, which remain, unpublished to date.