“Gentlemen,
I am going to tell you about the OSS … the most fantastic damned organization
in all our armed forces. Its people do
incredible things. They seduce German
spies, they parachute into Sicily one day and two days later they’re dancing on
the St. Regis roof. They dynamite
aqueducts, urinate in Luftwaffe gas tanks, and play games with IG Farben and
Krupp, but” – throwing up his hands – “90 per cent of this has not a g**d***ed thing to do with the war.”
(from The Secret
War by Max Hastings)
9*/10. The
complete review is here.
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