Author: Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.
Roseborough
Author: Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.
OSS
Author: Richard Harris Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1599216582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
“The best book about America’s first modern secret service.” --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services--America’s first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William (“Wild Bill”) Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the U.S. government has ever conducted. Author Richard Harris Smith, himself an ex-CIA hand, documents the controversial agency from its conception as a spin-off of the Office of the Coordinator for Information to its demise under Harry Truman and reconfiguration as the CIA. During his tenure, Donovan oversaw a chaotic cast of some ten thousand agents drawn from the most conservative financial scions to the country’s most idealistic New Deal true believers. Together they usurped the roles of government agencies both foreign and domestic, concocted unbelievably complicated conspiracies, and fought the good fight against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. For example, when OSS operatives stole vital military codebooks from the Japanese embassy in Portugal, the operation was considered a success. But the success turned into a flop as the Japanese discovered what had happened, and hastily changed a code that had already been decrypted by the U.S. Navy. Colorful personalities and truly priceless anecdotes abound in what may arguably be called the most authoritative work on the subject.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1599216582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
“The best book about America’s first modern secret service.” --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japan by reshuffling various government agencies to create the Office of Strategic Services--America’s first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA. When he charged William (“Wild Bill”) Donovan, a successful Wall Street lawyer and Wilkie Republican, to head up the office, the die was set for some of the most fantastic and fascinating operations the U.S. government has ever conducted. Author Richard Harris Smith, himself an ex-CIA hand, documents the controversial agency from its conception as a spin-off of the Office of the Coordinator for Information to its demise under Harry Truman and reconfiguration as the CIA. During his tenure, Donovan oversaw a chaotic cast of some ten thousand agents drawn from the most conservative financial scions to the country’s most idealistic New Deal true believers. Together they usurped the roles of government agencies both foreign and domestic, concocted unbelievably complicated conspiracies, and fought the good fight against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan. For example, when OSS operatives stole vital military codebooks from the Japanese embassy in Portugal, the operation was considered a success. But the success turned into a flop as the Japanese discovered what had happened, and hastily changed a code that had already been decrypted by the U.S. Navy. Colorful personalities and truly priceless anecdotes abound in what may arguably be called the most authoritative work on the subject.
Department of the Army
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925
Author: Nelson Greene
Publisher:
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Category : Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
The American and English Annotated Cases
Annotated Cases, American and English
American and English Annotated Cases
Author: Harry Noyes Greene
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
Aerospace Safety
Author:
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1764
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1764
Book Description