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Traces the life of a member of the OSS and the women who served undercover during World War II, detailing Nazi interrogations and expeditions behind enemy lines
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A chronicle of the contributions of the four thousand women who made up one-fifth of the OSS staff in the 1940s. A journalist and veteran of sensitive OSS and CIA operations, the author draws on her own experiences and interviews with over 100 other OSS women to recount the role they played in the espionage game during World War II. Spies, saboteurs, cryptographers, cartographers, analysts, and experts in propaganda, recruiting, and communications, as well as clerks, drivers, and secretaries tell their clandestine tales. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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