Douglas C. Waller
Autor von Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
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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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- Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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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.… (mehr)