Piercing the Reich; The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II
New York, N.Y. Ballantine Books, 1979. First Ballantine Books Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Mass market paperback. xiii, [3], 464 pages. Maps. Some cover wear. Some page discoloration. Bookseller stamp on first page. Includes Preface, Acknowledgments, Missions, Interviews, Glossary, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include The Delayed Decision; The Manufacture of Illusion; Burglars with Morals; Back Door to the Reich; The Invisible Invasion; The Birth of Sergeant Steinhauser; "I Swear Allegiance to Adolf Hitler"; A Dentist with a Mission; A Spy's Fate; The Courtship of Joan-Eleanor; Belgian Roulette; Armistice with the Air Force; The Jew Who Dared Return; "Take it away, New York"; Donovan's Red Army; An American in the Holocaust; The Spy who saved a City; Final Acts; and Debriefing. Also contains Missions, Interviews, Glossary, Bibliography, and Index. After 35 years of silence, top-secret files have been opened to reveal the stupendous drama of the most perilous and heroic chapter of intelligence history. Joseph Edward Persico (July 19, 1930 – August 30, 2014) was an author and American military historian. From 1974 to 1977, he was primary speechwriter to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. His book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials; it was adapted for television as the docudrama Nuremberg. In 1966 became the chief speechwriter for then Governor of New York Nelson A. Rockefeller. He remained Rockefeller's primary speechwriter throughout the latter's Vice Presidency. He wrote The Imperial Rockefeller, a biography of his former employer. He then wrote a biography of Edward R. Murrow. In 1995, he co-wrote Colin L. Powell's autobiography My American Journey. More