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Title: Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth McIntosh ISBN: 0-440-23466-2 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 09 March, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Chronicles Women's Contributions to Intelligence During WWII
Comment: I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the history of the Office of Strategic Services. The book does an excellent job presenting the contributions the women of the OSS made to the war effort with particular emphasis on morale operations and covert action. The book is not only an account of the author's experience in the OSS, but also devotes a majority of its pages to accounts of other OSS veterans serving in various posts throughout the world. Given the dearth of historical accounts of the contributions of women to the field of intelligence, this book is a must read. The author's vast experience in the field coupled with her excellent writing skills made this book one I simply could not put down.
Rating: 3
Summary: These sisters break the glass ceiling in WWII intrigue
Comment: For readers who enjoy history (particularly WWII), McIntosh's "Sisterhood of Spies" is a worthwhile experience. The book looks at women in all areas of OSS during WWII in all parts of the globe. McIntosh's writing style is a bit bothersome at times (too much "gung-ho" spirit for me; that's why I only give it three stars) but she knows her stuff and the profiles of these women and their work during the war more than make up for it. I liked the stories of daring (particularly "the lady with the limp" or the episode to steal the naval codes or the woman captured by the Germans). I learned a great deal about hte different aspects of OSS - the R&A, black propaganda (forging postcards to demoralize the families of Japanese soldiers fighting in Burma). McIntosh does a good job of creating a sense of the lifestyle - the pressures, the challenges. She also gives a good bit of detailed "back story" on the women - showing their life before the war, how they got involved with OSS, how their experiences with OSS transformed their lives, and finally, a glimpse of their lives post-war. These women definitely challenged perceived notions of how women could contribute to the war effort. Most all of them encountered "narrow thinking," particularly from the military branches they were working with, and managed to overcome that. I found the stories both fascinating and inspiring.
Rating: 4
Summary: Less Would Be More
Comment: McIntosh starts strong in "Sisterhood of Spies," providing the background of the organization and then composing small vignettes of representative women and thier exploits. As the books goes one, however, she seems to want to include thumbnails (names/backgrounds) of more and more women, and the exciting details of the few become rarer. These women were truly extraordinary, in ways that few people today can imagine, and they certainly deserve recognition. Perhaps McIntosh could have written more about her own interesting history with the OSS and left the other women to an author that felt less emotionally beholden to include everyone.
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Title: Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac, Konrad Bieber, Betsy Wing ISBN: 0803259239 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Women Who Spied/True Stories of Feminine Espionage by A. A. Hoehling ISBN: 0819184861 Publisher: Madison Books Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Sisters in the Resistance : How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 by Margaret Collins Weitz ISBN: 0471196983 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorel, Arcade Publishing ISBN: 0060958391 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Spies : The Secret Agents Who Changed the Course of History by Ernest Volkman ISBN: 0471193615 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 17 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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