OSS in China : prelude to Cold War
Yu, Maochun, 1962-2011
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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 conflicting objectives and personalities, inter-service rivalries, and crowning achievements of America's military, intelligence and political endeavours, the significance of which goes far beyond WWII and China.
Main title:
OSS in China : prelude to Cold War / Maochun Yu.
Author:
Yu, Maochun, 1962-, author
Edition:
First Naval Institute Press paperback edition.
Imprint:
Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 2011.©1996.
Collation:
xxii, 340 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
ch. One. Building an Empire -- ch. Two. Chungking Fog: Intelligence Warfare in China and a Lost Opportunity for OSS -- ch. Three. Donovan's Long March to Chungking -- ch. Four. Of Schemes and SACO -- ch. Five. OSS in an Army-Navy Game -- ch. Six. OSS Trisected: SACO, AGFRTS, and Dixie -- ch. Seven. The Miller Faux Pas and Wedemeyer's Ascension -- ch. Eight. OSS and the Yenan Mystique -- ch. Nine. OSS and Wedemeyer: New Deal for Intelligence -- ch. Ten. The Great Leap -- ch. Eleven. Surrender by Japan and Communist Hostility Toward OSS -- ch. Twelve. The Last Chapter.
ISBN:
9781591149866 (pbk.)
Dewey class:
940.548673940.5486
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
654183