This Grim And Savage Game

The OSS And U.S. Covert Operations In World War II

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By Tom Moon

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This is a true story of daring and adventure during World War II—with such unexpected players as Marlene Dietrich, who took part in the “musical warfare,” and Julia Child, whose duties were clerical but who nonetheless felt she was “saving the world.” To quote Tom Moon: “Anything that could hurt the enemy and aid the Allies was fair game. The rules of warfare were to be abolished for this organization.” “This organization” was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered into existence five months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The eclectic group of specially skilled agents included scientists, professors, policemen, forgers, pickpockets-and a nineteen-year-old French-speaking draftee from Nebraska named Tom Moon. Their mission: to gather information and to carry out sabotage and guerrilla operations behind enemy lines any way they could, anywhere in the world. Here is a little-known but crucial aspect of the war effort, told as only an insider can.

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On Sale
Jun 23, 2000
Page Count
352 pages
Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
9780306809569

Tom Moon

Tom Moon

About the Author

Award-winning music journalist Tom Moon is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered as well as Rolling Stone, Blender and other publications. During his twenty-year tenure as a music critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer, his writings appeared in hundreds of daily newspapers and magazines. A saxophonist, Moon began his career as a professional musician, working in assorted rock bands, cruise ship orchestras, and Maynard Ferguson’s big band. He lives with his wife, daughter, two dogs and thousands of CDs in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

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