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📘 Sisterhood of spies by Elizabeth Peet McIntosh

The daring missions and cloak-and-dagger skullduggery of America's World War II intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), are well documented and have become the stuff of legend. Yet the contributions of the four thousand women who made up one-fifth of the OSS staff have gone largely unheralded. Here for the first time is a chronicle of their fascinating adventures, told by one of their own.

First publish date: 1998

Genre: History/Military History

Authors: Elizabeth Peet McIntosh

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