German Anti-Nazi Espionage in the Second World War: The OSS and the Men of the Tool Missions

ISBN-13: 9780367606831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Jonathan Gould

Opis

This book tells the dramatic story of the recruitment and training of a group of German communist exiles by the London office of the Office of Strategic Services for key spy missions into Nazi Germany during the final months of World War II.

Spis treści

 

List of figures

Preface

Historical background

1 The HAMMER mission and the GRU

2 Mission into Landshut : The triumph of the PICKAXE mission

3 Gone too soon : The courageous life and tragic death of Kurt Gruber

4 Still missing : The story of Werner Fischer and the ill-fated BUZZSAW mission

5 Confl ict of loyalties : The MALLET mission and Adolph Buchholz

Epilogue

Bibliography

Appendices

Index

O autorze

Jonathan S. Gould is a former New York City schoolteacher and curriculum writer. He is now an attorney admitted to practice law in the federal and state courts of New York specializing in commercial litigation.