International intrigue, varied love affairs, and clandestine operations to topple governments all marked the life of Allen Dulles (1893-1969) who is regarded as the keystone figure in the history of American intelligence. Dulles was appointed as the first civilian director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1953, previous directors had been military officers, and was a member of the Warren Commission which investigated the assassination of President Kennedy. This definitive biography, goes beyond the life of this one fascinating man, and documents the creation of a massive intelligence network and the development of the United States into a super power. The influence of Dulles on intelligence gathering and covert activities still resonates today. Author Peter Grose has years of experience in foreign affairs both as a journalist and a State Department official and he paints a detailed picture of the powerful, moneyed world of international politics that most of us never see, but which shapes the course of modern history.

Allen Dulles: Spymaster: The Life and Times of the First Civilian Director of the CIA

Grose, Peter

Biographies & Memoirs

Andr Deutsch

In this masterly biography, Allen Dulles emerges from the shadows that have concealed him for more than 30 years as one of the most intriguing figures in recent American history.

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler's France

On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp and brutally separated: all the adults and most of the children were transported on to Auschwitz and certain death, but 1,000 children were left behind to wait for a later train. The French guards told the children left behind that they would soon be reunited with their parents, but Joseph and his new friend, Joe Kogan, chose to risk everything in a daring escape attempt. After eluding the guards and crawling under razor-sharp barbed wire, Joseph found freedom. But how would he survive the rest of the war in Nazi-occupied France and build a life for himself? His problems had just begun.
Until he was 80, Joseph Weismann kept his story to himself, giving only the slightest hints of it to his wife and three children. Simone Veil, lawyer, politician, President of the European Parliament, and member of the Constitutional Council of France―herself a survivor of Auschwitz―urged him to tell his story. In the original French version of this book and in Roselyne Bosch’s 2010 film La Rafle, Joseph shares his compelling and terrifying story of the Roundup of the Vél’ d’Hiv and his escape. Now, for the first time in English, Joseph tells the rest of his dramatic story in After the Roundup.

Weismann, Joseph

KENEALLY, Thomas

Historical

Indiana University Press

Analyzes the role of the United States in the creation of Israel, based on interviews with participants, official documents, and newly available archive data

Israel in the Mind of America

History

KNOPF

After the collapse of Nazi power in 1945, a sweeping change occurred in international relations that would transform the landscape of world politics for the next half-century. Uneasy allies in the war against Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate networks of spies and digging in for the postwar era. America's secret action plan was known as Rollback, an audacious strategy of espionage, subversion, and sabotage to foment insurrection in the Soviet satellite countries. The architect of the plan, an enigmatic American diplomat first known to the world under the pseudonym "X," publicly advocated an effort to "contain" communism. But following his legendary Long Telegram, Mr. X -- George Kennan -- devised a program of active confrontation with the Soviets through covert action. Within the secret councils of the Truman administration, hidden from the public as well as from most of the government, Kennan and his colleagues set in motion a series of daring and dramatic, though ultimately failed, secret missions behind the Iron Curtain. Concealed by all sides for four decades, the dangerous episodes of the Rollback campaign have only now come to light. Peter Grose here untangles the extraordinary, little-known story for the first time, artfully reconstructing a hidden history of intrigue and tragic obsession, of secret plots and larger-than-life personalities. Operation Rollback reveals how and why suspicions and recriminations on both sides drove the world into the Cold War.

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain

Europe

Houghton/Mifflin

Compiled without the cooperation of the CIA, a biography of Allen Dulles--head of the CIA under Eisenhower and Kennedy--portrays a man fascinated with the gathering of intelligence who led complex, often devious public and private lives.

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Fascinating . . . well-documented . . . thought-provoking and entertaining” (Publishers Weekly), Operation Rollback is a tale of intrigue and espionage that reveals how and why suspicions on both sides drove the world into the Cold War. In 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union started secretly mobilizing forces against each other, building intricate intelligence networks of spies and digging in for the postwar era. America’s secret action plan, known as Rollback, was an audacious strategy of espionage, subversion, and sabotage. Concealed for four decades by all involved, the dangerous episodes of the Rollback campaign have only now come to light.

Americas

Mariner Books

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Schocken

Heir to the academic think-tank called The Inquiry that prepared Woodrow Wilson for the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the Council on Foreign Relations has ever since filled a unique and often controversial place in the history of America's 20th century. Private and nonpartisan, endowed and financed over the decades by invited members, the New York-based Council has been called an incubator of ideas. From its book-lined meeting rooms and the pages of its publication Foreign Affairs has come much of the most provocative thought about foreign policy since the isolationist era of the 1920s, through World War II and the Cold War--and now beyond. This fresh and informal history of the Council's first 75 years reflects the diverse voices of Council members, who have been influential in both political parties, all presidential administrations following Wilson's, and on competing sides of major issues. Records of Council meetings reveal spirited discord and dissent on the problems of the day: to enter the war against fascism or put America First, about ideology and economics in the containment of communism, the influence of nuclear weapons upon diplomacy, recognition of communist China, the American war in Vietnam, and now the shape of the post-Cold War international order. The Council in its deliberations mirrors, as well as defines, the competing options for the society at large.

Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996 (Council on Foreign Relations (Council on Foreign Relations Press))

Council on Foreign Relations Press

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Allen Dulles: Spymaster: The Life and Times of the First Civilian Director of the CIA

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler's France

After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler's France

Israel in the Mind of America

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain

Israel in the Mind of America

Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996 (Council on Foreign Relations (Council on Foreign Relations Press))