Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II

by Matthew Black

Book Overview

Never has the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" had more truth than when the US government and the criminal underground joined forces to defeat the Nazi menace. For the first time ever the full story of how Charles "Lucky" Luciano--the U.S. Mafia boss who put the "organized" into organized crime--was recruited by U.S. Naval Intelligence in 1942 to aid the Allied war effort in the U.S. invasion of Sicily, a turning point in WWII.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806542152
• ISBN13: 9780806542157
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"