The Secret War Against Hitler [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Casey, William

Verlag: Regnery Gateway, Washington, D.C., 1988

Beschreibung

Fine condition light gray boards/red cloth spine/silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Foreword by M.R.D. Foot; Preface; Glossary; Appendix 1: A Letter to My Daughter; Appendix 2: OSS Documents; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and map/document illustrated front and rear endpapers. "In The Secret War Against Hitler former CIA Director William Casey recounts his service in the Second World War in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. Hired by William "Wild Bill" Donovan - the founder of the OSS - as a staff officer, Casey was sent to London where he helped to direct covert operations against Hitler's Germany and the Nazi war machine. Using elite Allied special forces, spies, and resistance movements, the "secret war" played a major part in Germany's defeat. [The book] shows how the Allies gathered intelligence, used it, and mis-used it. There were some spectacular successes in Norway, where German plans to produce an atomic bomb were foiled; at D-Day, where a steady supply of disinformation led the Germans to believe that the Normandy landings were a diversion; and with the resistance forces in France, who provided vital assistance to the British and American liberation forces. But there were also grave setbacks. The political and military bureaucracies were skeptical of the OSS and frequently paid insufficient attention to OSS reports and advice. Intelligence data that could have warned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were not handled properly, a failure to carefully examine reports of German resistance preparations in the Fatherland led to a mis-use of Allied manpower, and, Casey argues, the Allied insistence on "unconditional surrender" closed viable intelligence channels, thus unnecessarily prolonging the war and exacerbating its political, military, and human cost. Casey details the various factional fights between those who favored bombing over guerrilla action and those who favored the reverse, and the sometimes reluctant cooperation between the various intelligence services of the Allied powers. The Secret War Against Hitler points out the importance of understanding, in Casey's words, "how clandestine intelligence, covert action, and organized resistance, saved blood and treasure in defeating Hitler." It is a lesson still applicable today." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003660

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Secret War Against Hitler [FIRST EDITION...

Verlag: Regnery Gateway, Washington, D.C.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1988

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition