youre stepping on my cloak and dagger

Very good. No dust jacket. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 220 p. Bluejacket Books. Audience: General/trade. Trade Paperback 219 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Bluejacket Press first edition Eleventh printing 2004 with corresponding number line. Striking illustrated wraps on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book has slight shelf wear with bumped corners, wrinkles in cover and a few dog-eared pages. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. With a sharp eye and wry wit, Roger Hall recounts here his experiences as an American Army officer assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. First published in 1957 to critical and popular acclaim, his memoir has become a cult favorite in intelligence circles. He chronicles his experiences from his time as a junior officer fleeing a tedious training assignment in Louisiana to his rigorous OSS training rituals in the United States, England, and Scotland for its Special Operations unit. Quick to pick up on the skills necessary for behind-the-lines intelligence work, Hall became an expert instructor, but was only reluctantly given operational duties because of his reputation as an iconoclast. In his droll storytelling style, Hall describes his first parachute jump in support of the French resistance as a comedy of errors that terminated prematurely. His last assignment in the war zone came when then Capt. William Colby, the future head of the CIA, handpicked him to lead the second section of a Norwegian special operations group into Norway via Sweden.

Price: $18.00 from Alibris