The Secret Surrender: The Classic Insider's Account of the Secret Plot to Surrender Northern Italy During WWII
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592283683 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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WOW! This is a fantastic read. I had never known the secret history of the battle for Italy during WWII and it's one of those cases of Murphy's Law where if anything CAN go wrong it WILL go wrong. Mr. Dulles is just about to accept the surrender of all SS forces in Italy complete with all of the port facilities intact at the end of
From the Back CoverThis is the classic and controversial inside story of Operation Sunrise, which brought about the surrender of a million Nazi and Fascist forces in World War II.Allen Dulles—who became director of the CIA in 1953—guided the delicate, top-secret negotiations in Switzerland as an officer of the OSS. He describes the hazards of keeping open the channels of communication with the SS general in Italy who defied Hitler's "scorched earth" command. Dulles now reveals one of the most successful intelligence operations of our time in an immediate, personal, compelling, and suspenseful narrative.Here he recreates the climate of terror that paralyzed the German top military comma
The amazing true story of the largest surrender in World War II, as told by America's master spy.