The OSS and CIA: The History of America's Intelligence Community during World War II and the Establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency

"The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence."

When people think about the Second World War, they seldom think in terms of silence and small acts. This was a war in which the industry of entire nations was rearranged to feed fighting, and it was fought on a scale in which battles could include hundreds of thousands of combatants. Whole cities and populations were destroyed, with millions of casualties occurring at places like Leningrad.

But World War II was also a conflict in which mo...