1st Edition
German Anti-Nazi Espionage in the Second World War The OSS and the Men of the TOOL Missions
By Jonathan Gould
Copyright 2019
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The book chronicles their stand against the rise of Hitler in 1930s that caused them to flee Germany for Czechoslovakia and then England where they resettled... Read more
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
Biography
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.
