About this title: "A Man Called Intrepid" is the chronicle of the world's first integrated intelligence operation and of its chief, William Stephenson, whose code name "Intrepid", and bold mission were given to him by Winston Churchill, who charged him to establish a worldwide intelligence network to challenge the Nazis. Photos.
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co., Many
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780151567959ISBN:0151567956
Description: Cover Art. Good in As is jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The hard cover and the jacket has wear. The jacket has chips and tears...The jacket has small sign of moisture. The spine is cocked and the pages has yellowing. The front board is slightly bowed...............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
Description: Good. 158574154X Ex-library book with stickers and stampings. Overall good condition with clean text and good binding unless otherwise noted. Edges soiled. Most items ship within 24 hours. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781585741540ISBN:158574154X
Description: Good with no dust jacket. 158574154X. 1.52 x 9.01 x 6.13 Inches; 512 pages; Pages in nice shape; lifted corners; no spine creases. Cover has shelf and corner wear; some soiling on pg block. No expedited. Quick shipping w/delivery confirmation; bubble mailers. read more
Description: Hard Cover. Good/Fair. First Edition. Ex-Library. DJ FADED AND SOILED; MANY TEARS, SOME LARGE, AROUND EDGES. FFEP AND TITLE PAGE ARE ALMOST TORN OUT. NONFICTION, WORLD WAR II, SECRET SERVICE. 485 PAGE S. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780151567959ISBN:0151567956
Description: Robert Anthony (Jacket Design) Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 486 pages with index; Black & white photographs and maps; Textblock is tight with no internal markings; Red endpapers; Beige boards with a black spine and the title in gold; Pictorial dust-jacket has protected the book well but does have modest shelf and edge wear including small pieces missing from some edges and small close tears, so we have placed the dust-jacket in a protective, removable, clear mylar cover ... read more
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Chinese characters copyright page. B edition. (Pirated edition? ) Jacket chipped. "The authentic account of the most significant secret deplomacy and decisive intelligence operations of World War II. " read more
"One of the great espionage stories of WWII, how Churchill sent his best man to the U.S. to help Roosevelt build the OSS from essentially nothing. Stephenson had an office in NYC. One morning at his staff meeting, it was disclosed that one the group who was not present was a German spy. At the end of the day, someone asked Stephenson what he was going to do about it. He said he had taken care of the matter - he found the guy in Manhattan and strangled him. There is also the heroic story of Madeline, the French spy who was caught and later died in a concentration camp."
"VERY throrough portrait of a little-known, but important figure in the Allied victory. This pretty much covers Stephenson's entire involvement in the WWII secret world, from his first (I believe) "free lance" activity on Britain's behalf, through his official assignment by Churchill to help influence the US toward an open alliance with Britain; and goes into detail about his work to establish American espionage services.
However, it's rather serious and the writing is kind of on the dry side; not a light, jaunty read."
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