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Wild Bill Donovan : the spymaster who created the OSS and modern American espionage Cover Image Book Book

Wild Bill Donovan : the spymaster who created the OSS and modern American espionage / Douglas Waller.

Waller, Douglas C. (Author).

Summary:

"A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, 'Wild Bill' Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before."--from cover p. [2].

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  • ISBN: 9781416567448
  • ISBN: 1416567445
  • Physical Description: x, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-400) and index.

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Subject: Donovan, William J. (William Joseph), 1883-1959.
Intelligence officers > United States > Biography.
United States. Office of Strategic Services > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service.

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