Wild bill donovan biography book review new york times

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Wild bill donovan biography book review new york times: A biography of William

Simon and Schuster , 8 feb. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. 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. It makes for a gripping and revealing portrait of this most controversial spymaster. Utvalda sidor Titelsida. First Ward. The Great War. Intelligence Failures.