| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3 | The History Cooperative

Christof Mauch. The Shadow War Against Hitler: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 333. $32.50.
"In an age of bullies we cannot afford to be a sissy," declared William Joseph Donovan, director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America's first national intelligence service dedicated to the principle of a centralized (as opposed to departmentalized) intelligence organization responsible to one command. Christof Mauch's book, elegantly translated from German into English by Jeremiah Riemer, is a brilliant volume that expertly chronicles the epic saga of the OSS's robust intelligence warfare against the Third Reich, with vivid narratives and critical analysis skillfully intermingled throughout the text.	1
Established just months before America's entrance into the war in December 1941, the OSS fought its way through the mind-boggling bureaucratic turfs of Washington's intelligence mandarins, revolutionized America's intelligence concept and practice, experimented with virtually all types of modern methods of espionage and special operations, from the ingenious to the absurd, until its sudden demise in September 1945 as ordered by President Harry S Truman.	. . .

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