Douglas C. Waller
Auteur de Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
A propos de l'auteur
Douglas Waller is a former correspondent for Newsweek and Time. He has authored six books on the U.S. military and' intelligence, including the bestsellers Wild Bill Donovan, Big Red, and The Commandos.
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Œuvres de Douglas C. Waller
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage (2011) 347 exemplaires
A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation (2004) 144 exemplaires
Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan (2015) 103 exemplaires
Congress and the Nuclear Freeze: An Inside Look at the Politics of a Mass Movement (1987) 3 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
American Soldier: Stories of Special Forces from Iraq to Afghanistan (Adrenaline) (2002) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1949-06-30
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Norfolk, Virginia, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- Études
- Wake Forest University
University of North Carolina, Charlotte - Professions
- writer
journalist
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 1,143
- Popularité
- #22,462
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 22
- ISBN
- 46
- Langues
- 1
Waller traces Donovan's life from childhood to death, but the majority of the book focuses on the OSS and World War II. He relates Donovan's childhood in Buffalo, NY and shows it shaped him as an adult. He then details Donovan's business, military, and political career showing the connections he made and networking he developed that would be important later on.
Alongside this is the tale of Donovan's family life, one of almost constant separation, absent parenthood, and tragedy.
Waller details Donovan's skills and shortcomings as a leader and how both pushed the OSS ahead and held it back, leading to mistakes. At the same time, the book also shows just how fragmented and chaotic US intelligence efforts during World War II were; it also details the political and personal conflicts that kept intelligence efforts divided.… (plus d'informations)