Ebook: Donovan: America's Master Spy

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Prologue; Part One: The Making of a Hero 1883-1918; 1 The Boy from the Irish First Ward; 2 Donovan the Young Lawyer; 3 Relief Mission to Europe; 4 Joining Up with the Fighting 69th; 5 Rehearsal for War; 6 A Wood Called Rouge Bouquet; 7 Taking Hell with Bayonets; 8 Wild Bill Leads the Charge; 9 The Men We Left Behind; Part Two: The President's "Secret Legs" 1919-1941; 10 Siberian Adventure; 11 Fact-Finding in Europe; 12 Racket-Busting DA; 13 With the Department of Justice; 14 The Parade Passes By.;One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America's Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure. Donovan, originally published in 1982, penetrates the cloak of secrecy surrounding this remarkable man. During the dark days of World War II,?Wild Bill" Donovan, more than any other person, was responsible for what William Stevenson, author of A Man Called Intrepid, described as?the astonishing success with which the Unite.