The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service

by Christof Mauch

Book Overview

Surveying the expanding conflict in Europe during one of his famous fireside chats in 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt ominously warned that "we know of other methods, new methods of attack. The Trojan horse. The fifth column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231120451
• ISBN13: 9780231120456
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher