Piercing The Reich

Description for PIERCING THE REICH by Joseph E Persico:

During WWII, after the success of such offensives as the D-Day invasion and the Soviet march to the west, the Allies made the mistaken assumption that the Third Reich was finished. Then came the autumn of 1944, and Hitler rallied with surprising force, driving the Allies back toward Paris. Faced with a long war of attrition and no counterintelligence to speak of, the American OSS set out to accomplish what the British deemed impossible: to penetrate Nazi Germany with a network of spies. Locked away for more than 30 years in top-secret CIA files, here is the riveting true story of how American agents managed to infiltrate the Third Reich and shorten the war by many months. Based on interviews with surviving operatives and filled with colorful profiles, this book brings to life one of the greatest counterintelligence coups in history--a heroic mission that firmly established the U.S. as a superpower in the world of international espionage. B&W photos.