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OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch Files, 1942-1945
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

OSS Foreign Nationalities Branch Files, 1942-1945

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Documents consist of departmental memos and reports, correspondence with individuals, and press clippings and press reports which deal with American Jewish groups during 1942-1945, as well as issues relating to Palestine, Jews and Jewish refugees during World War II.

The Office of Strategic Services
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 51

The Office of Strategic Services

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-06
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) left a legacy of daring & innovation that has influenced American military & intelligence thinking since World War II. OSS owed its successes to many factors, but most of all to the foresight & drive of William J. Donovan, who built & held together the office's divergent missions & personalities. Today's CIA derives a significant institutional & spiritual legacy from OSS. This concise history describes some of the important components of OSS & highlights some of its significant missions & personalities. Chapters: COI Came First; Who Was OSS?; Research & Analysis; Special Operations; Secret Intelligence; X-2; Weapons & Spy Gear; OSS in Asia; An End & a Beginning; & Suggested Readings. Illus.

Foreign Nationality Groups in the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266
Greek Nationalism and Diaspora Politics in America, 1940-1945
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 808

Greek Nationalism and Diaspora Politics in America, 1940-1945

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Shadow War Against Hitler
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

The Shadow War Against Hitler

Filled with revelations and replete with telling detail, this riveting book lifts the curtain on the United States' secret intelligence operations in the war against Nazi Germany.

Special Warfare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Special Warfare

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Real History of World War II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

The Real History of World War II

Traces the causes of World War II, explores the motivations of important people involved with it, presents the events of the war grouped by the theater in which they took place, and examines its aftermath.

The Office of Strategic Services and Italian Americans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

The Office of Strategic Services and Italian Americans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-10-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book explores the contributions of Italian Americans employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Italian Americans fluent in Italian language and customs became integral parts of intelligence operations working behind enemy lines. These units obtained priceless military information that significantly helped defeat the Axis. They parachuted into frozen mountains tops to link up with Italian guerilla units in northern Italy or hovered in small patrol torpedo boats and row boats across the Mediterranean Sea in pitch black darkness to destroy railroad junctions.