OSS Agents in Hitler's Heartland: Destination Innsbruck
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Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.548673
EAN: 9780275954703
ISBN: 0275954706
Label: Praeger Publishers
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1996-05-30
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Studio: Praeger Publishers
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This book tells the history of one of the most successful OSS operations of World War II. Three OSS agents--two young immigrants, one from Germany, the other from Holland, and a former Austrian Wehrmacht officer--in the midst of winter make a night jump into the Austrian Alps, landing hip-deep in snow at 10,000 feet. William Casey--then an OSS official and later head of the CIA--called it "by far the most successful of the operations mounted from the OSS base at Bari." Thanks to this intrepid threesome, rail and road communications between the Italian front and Germany were seriously hampered and the city of Innsbruck in the heart of the Nazi's vaunted stronghold called the "National Redoubt," fell to American troops without a shot being fired.
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Summary: An assessment of one of the heroes in life
Comment: Professor Hans Winberg taught organic chemistry at my alma mater, Grinnell College [1950's]. Students of my era knew only marginally anything about Dr. Winberg's World War II experiences. We were just impressed to know such an intelligent person. Destination Innsbruck provides all the amazing details of his war experience. Equally important is the detail about the people of Oberperfuss who sheltered him from the Nazis. I can be thankful that the events happened at the end of the war when the outcome, the Allied Forces Victory, was known to all rational people. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the sense of suspense.
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Summary: Exceedingly well-done, readable till the very end
Comment: As one of the participants in this mission I must admit reading about my own adventure with continued interest. I didnot realize that I was this brave...!
In a broader context it is highly revealing to a younger generation that the three participants in this daring mission behind enemy lines during the second world war was carried out by two immigrants (Freddy and Hans) and one "foreigner". When the war was over, and the CIA arose out of the ashes of the OSS, neither of these three agents was eligble for employment with that agency, since the CIA (in 1947) decided to employ american citizens only...
Hans Wynberg
Professor of Organic Chemistry (retired)
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