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OSS in China : Prelude to Cold War
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yu, Maochun.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Office of Strategic Services--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--China.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret Service--China.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret Service--United States.
- Local Subjects:
- United States. Office of Strategic Services--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--China.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret Service--China.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret Service--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Other Title:
- OSS in China
- Place of Publication:
- : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Maochun Yu tells the story of the intelligence activities of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in China during World War II. Drawing on recently released classified materials from the U.S. National Archives and on previously unopened Chinese documents, Yu reveals the immense and complex challenges the agency and its director, General William Donovan, confronted in China. This book is the first research-based history and analysis of America s wartime intelligence and special operations activities in the China, Burma and India during WWII. It presents a complex and compelling story of confl
- Contents:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations ""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1. Building an Empire ""; ""2. Chungking Fog Intelligence Warfare in China and a Lost Opportunity for OSS""; ""3. Donovan's Long March to Chungking ""; ""4. Of Schemes and SACO ""; ""5. OSS in an Army-Navy Game ""; ""6. OSS Trisected: SACO, AGFRTS, and DIxie""; ""7. The Miller Faux Pas and Wedemeyer's Ascension ""; ""8. OSS and the Yenan Mystique ""; ""9. OSS and Wedemeyer New Deal for Intelligence""; ""10. The Great Leap ""
- ""11. Surrender by Japan and Communist Hostility Toward OSS""""12. The Last Chapter ""; ""Epilogue: So What? Conclusions ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61251-059-0
- OCLC:
- 854975341
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