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Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage

Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage

Waller, Douglas

Paperback

Series: A True Story of a WWII Spy

Military BiographiesArmed ForcesWorld War II

Publisher Price: $20.99

ISBN10: 1416576207
ISBN13: 9781416576204
Publisher: Free Press
Published: Feb 21 2012
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Entertaining history...Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkable wartime leader but also an extraordinary figure in American history. --The New York Times Book Review

A gripping, deeply researched biography of Wild Bill Donovan--the daring, controversial spymaster who built the OSS, shaped modern American intelligence, and transformed covert warfare during World War II.

He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals--the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, Wild Bill Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan's relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage.

Wild Bill Donovan reads like an action-packed spy thriller, with stories of daring young men and women in the OSS sneaking behind enemy lines for sabotage, breaking into Washington embassies to steal secrets, plotting to topple Adolf Hitler, and suffering brutal torture or death when they were captured by the Gestapo. It is also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government, of powerful men pitted against one another.

Separating fact from fiction, Waller investigates the successes and the occasional spectacular failures of Donovan's intelligence career. It makes for a gripping and revealing portrait of this most controversial spymaster.

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