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Author Persico, Joseph E.

Title Roosevelt's secret war : FDR and World War II espionage / Joseph E. Persico.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, 2002.
©2001

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  D810.S7 P45 2002    Available  ---
Edition Random House Trade paperback ed.
Description xxiv, 564 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-463) and index.
Contents 1. Gentleman amateurs -- 2. Spies, saboteurs, and traitors -- 3. Strange bedfellows -- 4. Spymaster in the Oval Office -- 5. Defeatist and the defiant -- 6. "There is no U.S. Secret Intelligence Service" -- 7. Spies versus ciphers -- 8. Donovan enters the game -- 9. "Our objective is to get America into the war" -- 10. Catastrophe or conspiracy -- 11. Secrets of the Map Room -- 12. Intramural spy wars -- 13. Premier secret of the war -- 14. Enter the OSS -- 15. "We are striking back" -- 16. An exchange : an invasion for a bomb -- 17. Leakage from the top -- 18. Distrusting Allies -- 19. Deceivers and the deceived -- 20. White House is penetrated -- 21. If overlord fails -- 22. Cracks in the Reich -- 23. A secret unshared -- 24. "Take a look at the OSS" -- 25. Sympathizers and spies -- 26. A leaky vessel -- 27. Who knew and when -- 28. "Stalin has been deceiving me all along" -- 29. "The following are the latest casualties -- 30. Aftermath.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
United States. Office of Strategic Services -- History.
United States. Office of Strategic Services.
History.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Intelligence service.
United States.
Chronological Term 20th century
ISBN 0375761268