The Saboteurs (Men at War Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1423319664 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Canidy. "Wild Bill" Donovan; and OSS agent Maj. William J. All rights reserved. This is pretty much all show and no go, but readers who have a strong interest in WWII home-front history should be satisfied. One supposes that the Sicilian story that's promised but never delivered will appear in future installments. The German saboteurs are eventually dealt with, but the behind-the-lines Sicilian operation led by Canidy is only hastily outlined after a long buildup. Richard M. preparation for the invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy in 1943, and the tale of four German saboteurs who have landed in America. Two primary plot lines drive this new adventure: the U.S. From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Griffin and his son, Butterworth, resuscitate Griffin's Men at War series, first published in paperback during the 1980s under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin and featuring the Office of Strategic Service
JH in Cedar Creek, TX said This one is just about the best so far of the series. I've been reading Griffin for many years; I just realized this series was available on kindle and I am working through the series. This one is just about the best so far of the series. Yes, the writing is a bit hackneyed - it's brain candy. But the story, even as improbable as it is,moves quickly and keeps your interest. This series started several years ago under another name and was picked up with book This one is just about the best so far of the series I've been reading Griffin for many years; I just realized this series was available on kindle and I am working through the series. This one is just about the best so far of the series. Yes, the writing is a bit hackneyed - it's brain candy. But the story, even as improbable as it is,moves quickly and keeps your interest. This series started several years ago under another name and was picked up with book 3 in the series. Unless you read them in . in the series. Unless you read them in . DURING WAR- BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW THAN THE STRANGER YOU DON'T .the enemy of my enemy isn't always a friend Roberta Williams As I read this book, it seemed like the general theme was the fight between the OSS and the FBI, rather than about Sabateurs. A good part of the story centered on the connections between the Mafia and the FBI and the Mafia's connection to the Mediterranean which would be important in the next book about Double Agents, but a great deal of that story was background and I would have liked to have read a bit more about the actual activities of the S. William Lotz said Saboteured by Detriments. This novel is a story about the O S S (Office of Strategic Services (predecessor to the C I A) and one of its most important agents, U S Army Major Richard Canidy who, with various O S S associates,the FBI and members of the Mafia, travel over most of Europe and the U. S. on missions to find and kill or capture spies and saboteurs early in WWII.Were it not for the many detrimental factors, such as, but not necessarily limited to; extended descri
Packs of German U-boats are hunting and sinking U.S. ports, and a series of explosions has afflicted trains and train stations around the country—is it all accidental or is it sabotage? Meanwhile, Allied forces are secretly preparing to invade first Sicily and then Italy, and there is a lot of work that needs to be done beforehand, some with the most unlikely of helping hands. supply ships. If coincidence had thrown these men together in any normal military organization, and if, improbably, they had become buddies there, any commanding officer with enough sense would have broken up the gang as threats to “good military order and discipline.”But they weren’t in any normal military organization.They were in the Office of Strategic Services.The Battle of the Atlantic is at it