Shadow War Against Hitler
The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service
«A thrilling look into the work of the first central secret service of the U.S. Stuttgarter Nachrichten (of the German edition) This excellent book...is well translated and boasts impressive research...a fine job of telling the OSS story. Library Journal [Mauch] offers valuable information concerning the 'Sauerkrauts,' German POWs who volunteered to infiltrate German lines to spread defeatism amongWehrmacht units and the SS formations in northern Italy. This is a valuable addition for graduate students and professionals in the field. Recommended. Choice [Mauch] succeeds in transforming his meticulous archival research into a readable and thought provoking monograph. This volume will provide significant new data for scholars and laymen alike on the OSS and its 'shadow war' against the Nazis. Jewish Book World Mauch has not only written a superb account of OSS activities during the war, but he has also woven into his narrative the political, diplomatic, and military dynamics that framed key decisions... It is essential reading for students of intelligence and strategy alike and would make a fine addition to the professional library. -- Raymond Millen International History Review A valuable contribution to an understanding of the postwar world. -- Freie Universitat Berlin Journal of Military History The Shadow War Against Hitler is an excellent read. -- Mitchell McNaylor Military Review Christof Mauch's book... is a brilliant volume that expertly chronicles the epic saga of the OSS's robust intelligence warfare against the Third Reich, with vivid narratives and critical analysis skillfully intermingled throughout the text... This is a must read for anyone who studies America's war against Nazi Germany. -- Maochun Yu, United States Naval Academy American Historical Review The most authoritative single volume on the subject... Mauch brilliantly integrates both the research/analytical as well as operational histories of the OSS. -- Rorin M. Platt American Diplomacy.org A well-researched and balanced study. -- Steve Hewitt History: The Journal of the Historical Association Scholars of the Second World War should look to Mauch's work to provide a template for analysis of this important subject. -- Patricia Kollander H-Net»
Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. Les mer
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Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. Spies, saboteurs, and traitors are the actors in this new strategy." Having identified a new type of war-a shadow war-being perpetrated by Hitler's Germany, FDR decided to fight fire with fire, authorizing the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to organize and oversee covert operations. Based on an extensive analysis of OSS records, including the vast trove of records released by the CIA in the 1980s and '90s, as well as a new set of interviews with OSS veterans conducted by the author and a team of American scholars from 1995 to 1997, The Shadow War Against Hitler is the full story of America's far-flung secret intelligence apparatus during World War II.
In addition to its responsibilities generating, processing, and interpreting intelligence information, the OSS orchestrated all manner of dark operations, including extending feelers to anti-Hitler elements, infiltrating spies and sabotage agents behind enemy lines, and implementing propaganda programs. Planned and directed from Washington, the anti-Hitler campaign was largely conducted in Europe, especially through the OSS's foreign outposts in Bern and London. A fascinating cast of characters made the OSS run: William J. Donovan, one of the most decorated individuals in the American military who became the driving force behind the OSS's genesis; Allen Dulles, the future CIA chief who ran the Bern office, which he called "the big window onto the fascist world"; a veritable pantheon of Ivy League academics who were recruited to work for the intelligence services; and, not least, Roosevelt himself. A major contribution of the book is the story of how FDR employed Hitler's former propaganda chief, Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstengl, as a private spy.
More than a record of dramatic incidents and daring personalities, this book adds significantly to our understanding of how the United States fought World War II. It demonstrates that the extent, and limitations, of secret intelligence information shaped not only the conduct of the war but also the face of the world that emerged from the shadows.
In addition to its responsibilities generating, processing, and interpreting intelligence information, the OSS orchestrated all manner of dark operations, including extending feelers to anti-Hitler elements, infiltrating spies and sabotage agents behind enemy lines, and implementing propaganda programs. Planned and directed from Washington, the anti-Hitler campaign was largely conducted in Europe, especially through the OSS's foreign outposts in Bern and London. A fascinating cast of characters made the OSS run: William J. Donovan, one of the most decorated individuals in the American military who became the driving force behind the OSS's genesis; Allen Dulles, the future CIA chief who ran the Bern office, which he called "the big window onto the fascist world"; a veritable pantheon of Ivy League academics who were recruited to work for the intelligence services; and, not least, Roosevelt himself. A major contribution of the book is the story of how FDR employed Hitler's former propaganda chief, Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstengl, as a private spy.
More than a record of dramatic incidents and daring personalities, this book adds significantly to our understanding of how the United States fought World War II. It demonstrates that the extent, and limitations, of secret intelligence information shaped not only the conduct of the war but also the face of the world that emerged from the shadows.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231120456
- Utgivelsesår
- 2005
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«A thrilling look into the work of the first central secret service of the U.S. Stuttgarter Nachrichten (of the German edition) This excellent book...is well translated and boasts impressive research...a fine job of telling the OSS story. Library Journal [Mauch] offers valuable information concerning the 'Sauerkrauts,' German POWs who volunteered to infiltrate German lines to spread defeatism amongWehrmacht units and the SS formations in northern Italy. This is a valuable addition for graduate students and professionals in the field. Recommended. Choice [Mauch] succeeds in transforming his meticulous archival research into a readable and thought provoking monograph. This volume will provide significant new data for scholars and laymen alike on the OSS and its 'shadow war' against the Nazis. Jewish Book World Mauch has not only written a superb account of OSS activities during the war, but he has also woven into his narrative the political, diplomatic, and military dynamics that framed key decisions... It is essential reading for students of intelligence and strategy alike and would make a fine addition to the professional library. -- Raymond Millen International History Review A valuable contribution to an understanding of the postwar world. -- Freie Universitat Berlin Journal of Military History The Shadow War Against Hitler is an excellent read. -- Mitchell McNaylor Military Review Christof Mauch's book... is a brilliant volume that expertly chronicles the epic saga of the OSS's robust intelligence warfare against the Third Reich, with vivid narratives and critical analysis skillfully intermingled throughout the text... This is a must read for anyone who studies America's war against Nazi Germany. -- Maochun Yu, United States Naval Academy American Historical Review The most authoritative single volume on the subject... Mauch brilliantly integrates both the research/analytical as well as operational histories of the OSS. -- Rorin M. Platt American Diplomacy.org A well-researched and balanced study. -- Steve Hewitt History: The Journal of the Historical Association Scholars of the Second World War should look to Mauch's work to provide a template for analysis of this important subject. -- Patricia Kollander H-Net»
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