{"product_id":"wild-bill-donovan-the-spymaster-who-created-the-oss-and-modern-american-espionage-a-true-story-of-a-wwii-spy","title":"Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage (A True Story of a WWII Spy)","description":"“Entertaining history…Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkable wartime leader but also an extraordinary figure in American history.” —The New York Times Book Review\n\nA gripping, deeply researched biography of “Wild Bill” Donovan—the daring, controversial spymaster who built the OSS, shaped modern American intelligence, and transformed covert warfare during World War II.\n\nHe was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. 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. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan’s relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage.\n\nWild Bill Donovan reads like an action-packed spy thriller, with stories of daring young men and women in the OSS sneaking behind enemy lines for sabotage, breaking into Washington embassies to steal secrets, plotting to topple Adolf Hitler, and suffering brutal torture or death when they were captured by the Gestapo. It is also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government, of powerful men pitted against one another.\n\nSeparating fact from fiction, Waller investigates the successes and the occasional spectacular failures of Donovan’s intelligence career. It makes for a gripping and revealing portrait of this most controversial spymaster.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1416576207\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1416576207.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Waller, Douglas\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452902633533,"sku":"BVV.1416576207.A","price":6.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1416576207-0.jpg?v=1793912861","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/wild-bill-donovan-the-spymaster-who-created-the-oss-and-modern-american-espionage-a-true-story-of-a-wwii-spy","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}