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Richard Harris Smith began writing this history of the OSS after resigning from the CIA in 1968. He now deals in rare and antique American books and lives in Merced, California.
The best book about America's first modern secret service . . . Smith, combining the style of a journalist with the scholarly approach of the political scientist, has provided an excellent overview of the role of OSS during the two-front war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan . . . Tracing the names, the half-submerged links between the intelligence community and what Richard Rovere has called the American Establishment, is what makes Smith's book so fascinating and valuable. --Washington Post Book World Smith's absorbing book is really an introduction to what the OSS and its crew of generally exceptionally able and imaginative employees was all about. --Foreign Service Journal He describes how the OSS figured in, and was related to, the whole diplomatic and military history of the war. --Annals
