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"Political views were irrelevant to the director. He valued creative intelligence, a love of adventure, and a willingness to fight the enemy." - Noel Fitch Riley

"If you define leadership as having a vision for an organization, and the ability to attract, motivate and guide followers to fulfill that vision, you have Bill Donovan in spades." - Fisher Howe, special assistant to General Donovan

"The OSS was a remarkable institution: half cops and robbers and half faculty meeting." - McGeorge Bundy

"It wasn't a spit-and-polish organization. It was a can-do outfit." - Col. William H. Pietsch Jr., USA (Ret.)

"I have never known such a bunch of troublemakers in my life." - Bernard Knox

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New Book Reviews

24 October 2009

The Cloak and Dagger Cook: A CIA Memoir
By Kay Shaw Nelson

Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
By Christopher Andrew

Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA
By Charles Faddis

Dr. Seuss & Co. Go to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America’s Leading Comic Artists
By Andre Schiffrin

World War II: Saving the Reality (A Collector's Vault)
By Kenneth Rendell

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
By Robert Edsel

A Spy's Diary of World War II: Inside the OSS With an American Agent in Europe
By Wayne Nelson

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