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Alliance of Enemies The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II

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ISBN-10: 0312323697

ISBN-13: 9780312323691

Edition: 2007

Authors: Agostino Von Hassell, Sigrid MacRae, Simone Ameskamp, Sigrid Macrae

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"Alliance of Enemies" tells the thrilling history of the secret World War II relationship between Nazi Germany' s espionage service, the Abwehr, and the American OSS, predecessor of the CIA. The actors in this great as-yet-untold story were often at odds with their respective governments. Working in the face of competing ideologies and at great personal risk, these unorthodox collaborators struggled to bring about an early peace. By mining" "secret World War II files that were only recently declassified, as well as personal interviews, diaries, and previously unpublished accounts to unearth some of history' s surprises, Agostino von Hassell and Sigrid MacRae shed new light on Franklin…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/14/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Agostino von Hassell earned degrees in European History and Journalism at Columbia University. He is the president of The Repton Group and has expertise in national security matters, high-level investigations around the globe, terrorism, and military issues and global trade problems.

SIGRID MACRAE holds a graduate degree in Art History from Columbia University and is coauthor of Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II . She lives in New York City.

Acknowledgments: Alliance of Friends
Chronology
Preface
Prologue
1918-1936: Overtures to War
Intelligence: A Vehicle of War
The Adventures of "Kika": A Life in Brief
The Business of America: Fueling the Beast
The Motorization and Mobilization of Germany
Enter Canaris
Shaping a New Abwehr
The Intelligence Wars
1933-1939: The Other Germany
The Great Prison
The Search for Allies Abroad
Consolidating Power, Crystallizing Opposition
Dialogues of the Deaf
The Generals' Plot: "Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Measures"
"We Have Saved Hitler and His Regime"
A Mighty Fortress
Circles of Resistance
The Coming Disaster
1933-1941: A Reluctant Ally, Reluctant Generals
U.S. Policy in the 1930s
An Adventure for Peace
Presidential Emissary
The Myth of the Nazi Monolith
A Turning Point
America Between Peace and War
General Donovan's Intelligence Service
1939-1941: Fluid Neutralities
The Istanbul Connection
The Dapper Diplomat
Portugal: The International Clearing Ground
The Unwelcome Duke
The Wily Profiteer
Forced Labor for Ford and General Motors
1941-1942: Responding to Hitler
An Elusive Peace
Operation Barbarossa
The United States Joins the War
The Jewish Question
Shaping the OSS
The Final Solution
The Mediterranean Rim
Bern: Allen Dulles's "Big Window"
1943: A Watershed
Unconditional Surrender
The Perfect Connection
Sources from Within and Without the Reich
The Military Opposition
The Jewish Question
Turkey: OSS Joins the Party
The Temper of the Opposition
Turkey: The Dogwood Chain
Bern: The Unlikely Crown Jewel
The OSS in London
1944: The Crucible
Troubles in Turkey
It All Unravels
The Jewish Question: The Brand Plan
Auschwitz: Priority Target
The Jewish Question: The Allied Stance
The Opposition
Bern: Pleas for Urgent Action
1944: Ideologies, Antagonisms, Profits
Dulles and the Opposition
Portugal: A Nest of Inventive Spies
The Incomparable Garbo
The Grand Deception
The Lure and Lucre of Neutrality
Sweden and SKF
The Gold Business
Trading with the Enemy
Project Safehaven
1944-1945: Armageddon and Beyond
The Breakers: July 20, 1944
After Gotterdammerung
Operation Sauerkraut
A Changing Political Landscape
Profound and Poignant Questions
Ghosts
Yalta and the Bond of the Victors
The Canaris Diaries
After All Possible Vicissitudes: Operation Sunrise
The "Good Germans"
1945: Realpolitik: From Crusade to Deal
Changing Enemies
Deals with Devils
Operation Plunder
The Hunt for Rare, Chosen Minds
Using Beelzebub to Drive out Satan
More Deals, More Devils
The End of the OSS
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendixes
Glossary
Military Rank Equivalences
Brief Biographies
Notes
Bibliography
Index