By the authors of "Nazi Gold", this book describes the exploits of the secret American Counter Intelligence Corps, both during and after World War II. It recounts their work against enemy espionage, their role in hunting down Nazi war criminals, and their spy network behind the Iron Curtain.

America's Secret Army

Politics & Social Sciences

Sayer, Ian

Botting, Douglas

Politics & Government

HarperCollins, Publishers

In 1945, as Allied bombers continued their final pounding of Berlin, the panicking Nazis began moving the assets of the Reichsbank south for safekeeping. Vast trainloads of gold and currency were evacuated from the doomed capital of Hitler's 'Thousand-year Reich'. Nazi Gold is the real-life story of the theft of that fabulous treasure - worth some 2,500,000,000 at the time of the original investigation. It is also the story of a mystery and attempted whitewash in an American scandal that pre-dated Watergate by nearly 30 years. Investigators were impeded at every step as they struggled to uncover the truth and were left fearing for their lives. The authors' quest led them to a murky, dangerous post-war world of racketeering, corruption and gang warfare. Their brilliant reporting, matching eyewitness testimony with declassified Top Secret documents from the US Archives, lays bare this monumental crime in a narrative which throngs with SS desperadoes, a red-headed queen of crime and American military governors living like Kings. Also revealed is the authors' discovery of some of the missing treasure in the Bank of England.

Nazi gold: The story of the world's greatest robbery--and its aftermath

GRANADA

Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War II In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine Fortress," where he and the SS would keep the hostages as they made a last stand against the Allies. The prisoners included European presidents, prime ministers, generals, British secret agents, and German anti-Nazi clerics, celebrities, and officers who had aided the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler--and the prisoners' families. Orders were given to the SS: if the German military situation deteriorated, the prisoners were to be executed--all 139 of them. So began a tense, deadly drama. As some prisoners plotted escape, others prepared for the inevitable, and their SS guards grew increasingly volatile, drunk, and trigger-happy as defeat loomed. As a dramatic confrontation between the SS and the Wehrmacht threatened the hostages caught in the middle, the US Army launched a frantic rescue bid to save the hostages before the axe fell. Drawing on previously unpublished and overlooked sources, Hitler's Last Plot is the first full account of this astounding and shocking story, from the original round-up order to the prisoners' terrifying ordeal and ultimate rescue. Told in a thrilling, page-turning narrative, this is one of World War II's most fascinating episodes.

Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II

History

Dronfield, Jeremy

Europe

Da Capo Press

Chronicles the fate of the wealth of the Third Reich buried in the Bavarian mountains near the end of the war and looted by former Nazis and American soldiers in the chaos of defeat

Nazi Gold: The Story of the World's Greatest Robbery--And Its Aftermath

Americas

Congdon & Weed

This story of the theft of the Nazis' hoard of more than $2.5 billion in gold, currency, and jewels reveals, after a nine-year investigation, how the gold was moved, how it vanished, and who dipped into the booty

Nazi Gold

Grove Pr

Describes the activities of the Army's spycatching unit from the early days of World War II to the Cold War era, when it was merged with the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps

America's Secret Army: The Untold Story of the Counter Intelligence Corps

Military

Franklin Watts

Amidst the libraries of scholarship on the public deeds of Adolf Hitler, much of the private life of this thoroughly evil figure remains enigmatic. The Women Who Knew Hitler reveals a new dimension and insider’s view of Hitler, whose love life, with all its complexities, inadequacies, and brutality, is posited as lying at the very core of the tormented dictator who murdered millions and nearly destroyed a continent. Accessing a multitude of sources, including surviving documents, eyewitness accounts, interrogation reports, even U.S. intelligence files and private papers revealed here for the first time, the authors reposition Hitler in a vivid, updated form for a new generation of historians and readers.

The Women Who Knew Hitler: The Private Life of Adolf Hitler

Carroll&Graf

Nazi Gold is the real-life story of the theft of a fabulous treasure—the German national gold and foreign currency reserves, which disappeared in transit following the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945. The authors' quest led them to a murky, dangerous, post-war world of racketeering, corruption, and gang warfare. Their reporting, matching eyewitness testimony with recently declassified Top Secret documents from the US Archives, lays bare this monumental crime in a narrative which throngs with SS desperadoes, a redheaded queen of crime, American military governors living like kings, and investigators impeded at every step and in fear of their lives. This fully updated edition of Nazi Gold includes startling evidence that throws further light on the crime, including the authors' recent discovery of some of the missing treasure in the Bank of England.

Nazi Gold: The Sensational Story of the World's Greatest Robbery - and the Greatest Criminal Cover-Up

Mainstream Publishing

By the authors of "Nazi Gold," this book describes the exploits of the secret American Counter Intelligence Corps, both during and after World War II. It recounts their work against enemy espionage, their role in hunting down Nazi war criminals, and their spy network behind the Iron Curtain.

America's Secret Army: The Untold Story of the Counterintelligence Corps

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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