Wild Bill And Intrepid

Author : Thomas F. Troy
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300065633
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill and Intrepid written by Thomas F. Troy and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the CIA solely an American accomplishment--the work of "Wild Bill" Donovan--as CIA tradition has held? Or was it, in fact, established through the workings of Bill Stephenson, the legendary "Intrepid" who directed British intelligence in the U.S. during World War II? In this gripping book, a former staff officer and analyst at CIA unveils the truth about the agency's origins.

Author : Douglas Waller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416568050
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill Donovan written by Douglas Waller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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). He 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. Wild 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. Separating 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.

Author : Graham Yost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816019397
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Bill and the Intrepid written by Graham Yost and published by . This book was released on 1990-04-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series depicting various undercover operations, this volume traces the joint ventures of William Wild Bill Donovan and William Stephenson (alias Intrepid), who served as liaison between the British and American intelligence divisions during World War II.

Author : Thomas F. Troy
Publisher : Frederick, Md. : Aletheia Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donovan and the CIA written by Thomas F. Troy and published by Frederick, Md. : Aletheia Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As conceived, this history was aimed at satisfying the need of employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, especially new or young professional ones, for a comprehensive and detailed account of the agency's origin. It was completed in 1975, classified SECRET, and reproduced in sets of 2 volumes each. The security classification has recently been reviewed, and the manuscript, shorn of no more than six typewritten pages of material, is now declassified. Thus released for leisurely reading outside the office, and printed in one volume, this history should better serve its original purpose."--Preface.

Author : William Stevenson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510729186
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intrepid's Last Case written by William Stevenson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrepid's Last Case chronicles the post-World War II activities of Sir William Stephenson, whose fascinating role in helping to defeat the Nazis was the subject of the worldwide bestseller A Man Called Intrepid. Sir William Stephenson (Intrepid) still stood at the center of events when he and author William Stevenson discussed in the 1980s an investigation into sudden allegations that Intrepid's wartime aide, Dick Ellis, had been both a Soviet mole and a Nazi spy. They concluded that the rumors grew, ironically, from Intrepid's last wartime case involving the first major Soviet intelligence defector of the new atomic age: Igor Gouzenko. Intrepid saved Gouzenko and found him sanctuary inside a Canadian spy school. Gouzenko was about to make more devastating disclosures than those concerning atomic espionage when the case was mysteriously terminated and Intrepid's organization dissolved. Unraveling the implications of Gouzenko's defection and Intrepid's removal from the case, tracing the steps of Dick Ellis and disclosing much new information regarding United States and Canadian postwar intelligence activities, Intrepid's Last Case is a story that for sheer excitement rivals the best spy fiction--and is all the more important because every word is true. Filled with never-before-revealed facts on the Soviet/Western nuclear war dance and a compelling portrayal of the mind of a professional spy, Intrepid's Last Case picks up where the first book ended, at the very roots of the cold war. It describes one of the most widespread cover-ups and bizarre betrayals in intelligence history. This is the incredible Intrepid against the KGB.

Author : William Stevenson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345293527
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man Called Intrepid written by William Stevenson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1980-06-12 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephenson, whose code name was Intrepid, tells how he established a worldwide intelligence network to combat Nazism.

Author : Douglas Waller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451693745
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disciples written by Douglas Waller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author of the critically acclaimed bestseller Wild Bill Donovan, tells the story of four OSS warriors of World War II. All four later led the CIA. They are the most famous and controversial directors the CIA has ever had-- Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, and William Casey. Disciples is the story of these dynamic agents and their daring espionage and sabotage in wartime Europe under OSS Director Bill Donovan. Allen Dulles ran the OSS's most successful spy operation against the Axis. Bill Casey organized dangerous missions to penetrate Nazi Germany. Bill Colby led OSS commando raids behind the lines in occupied France and Norway. Richard Helms mounted risky intelligence programs against the Russians in the ruin of Berlin after the German surrender. Four very different men, they later led (or misled) the successor CIA. Dulles launched the calamitous operation to land CIA-trained, anti-Castro guerrillas at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Helms was convicted of lying to Congress over the CIA's role in the coup that ousted Chile's president. Colby would become a pariah for releasing to Congress what became known as the 'Family Jewels' report on CIA misdeeds during the 1950s, sixties and early seventies. Casey would nearly bring down the CIA-- and Ronald Reagan's presidency-- from a scheme that secretly supplied Nicaragua's contras with money raked off from the sale of arms to Iran for American hostages in Beirut. Mining thousands of once-secret World War II documents and interviewing scores of family members and CIA colleagues, Waller has written a brilliant successor to Wild Bill Donovan"--

Author : Bill MacDonald
Publisher : Raincoast Books
ISBN 13 : 9781551924182
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Intrepid written by Bill MacDonald and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War intelligence exploits of William Stephenson-the mysterious man known simply as "Intrepid" who is said to be the real-life model for Ian Fleming's James Bond-were celebrated in his lifetime in espionage lore the world over. As head of the British Security Coordination, a predecessor of the CIA, Stephenson was responsible for the hugely successful covert political war against all sources of Axis strength. Subsequently, though, some observers questioned certain aspects of Stephenson's career. In this fascinating re-examination of the historical record, Bill Macdonald documents Stephenson's clouded early life and unravels the tangled strings of information that run through secret papers and previous books to reveal the astonishing details of the man who said: "Nothing deceives like a document."A revised paperback reprint of a Maclean's magazine bestseller, The True Intrepid features historical photographs, personal interviews with those who worked with Stephenson, and a foreword by the CIA's staff historian and former CIA staff officer, Thomas F. Troy.

Author : Richard Dunlop
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628738987
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donovan written by Richard Dunlop and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA. One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America’s Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure. Donovan, originally published in 1982, penetrates the cloak of secrecy surrounding this remarkable man. During the dark days of World War II, “Wild Bill” Donovan, more than any other person, was responsible for what William Stevenson, author of A Man Called Intrepid, described as “the astonishing success with which the United States entered secret warfare and accomplished in less than four years what it took England many centuries to develop.” Drawing upon Donovan’s diaries, letters, and other papers; interviews with hundreds of the men and women who worked with him and spied for him; and declassified and unpublished documents, author Richard Dunlop, himself a former member of Donovan’s OSS, traces the incredible career of the man who almost single-handedly created America’s central intelligence service. The result is the definitive biography that Donovan himself had always expected Dunlop would write. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Hal Herring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461748577
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Firearms of the Old West written by Hal Herring and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill and from Chief Joseph to Geronimo, the most famous guns in the West and the history behind them More than a few of the actual guns once in the hands of the heroes and villains of America’s Old West still exist, housed in a dozen museums across the country—from the Model 1866 .44-40 that Chief Joseph famously surrendered to General Miles to Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Model 1851 revolvers; from Buffalo Bill’s .50 caliber breechloading needlegun nicknamed “Lucrezia Borgia” to John Wesley Hardin’s 1860 model .44 SA revolvers. Famous Firearms of the Old West follows the life stories of a dozen actual pistols, rifles, and shotguns instrumental in shaping America’s history—using them as entrées into the lives of the shooters themselves. This is a vivid portrait of famous Western characters, paired with the guns they used to make themselves famous or, as the case may be, infamous. It is a must for anyone interested in the history and lore of the Wild West, gun hobbyists, and tourists seeking a museum experience with a difference.