The daring missions and cloak-and-dagger skullduggery of America's World
War II intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), are
well documented and have become the stuff of legend. Yet the
contributions of the four thousand women who made up one-fifth of the
OSS staff have gone largely unheralded.
A
seasoned journalist and veteran of sensitive OSS and CIA operations,
Elizabeth McIntosh draws on her own experiences and interviews with more
than a hundred other OSS women to reveal some of the most tantalizing
stories and best-kept secrets of the war in Europe and Asia. McIntosh
weaves intimate portraits of dozens of remarkable women into the storied
development and operation of the OSS in the 1940s. Along with famous
names like Julia Child and Marlene Dietrich, one will discover such
intrepid agents as Amy Thorpe, who seduced a Vichy official
and stole naval codes from the French embassy. And Virginia Hall, who earned
a Distinguished Service Cross for her work with the French resistance
running an underground railroad for downed fliers; and others who
recruited double agents, pioneered propaganda and subversion techniques,
and tracked the infamous Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny.
Printing History
Written by 1915-2015)
Random House Publishing Group
1999
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