The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service
- ISBN-10
- 0231120443
- ISBN-13
- 9780231120449
- Category
- World War, 1939-1945
- Pages
- 333
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Christof Mauch
Description
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.
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