OSS Agents in Hitler's Heartland: Destination Innsbruck

by Gerald Schwab

This book tells the history of one of the most successful OSS operations of World War II. Three OSS agents--two young immigrants, one from Germany, the other from Holland, and a former Austrian Wehrmacht officer--in the midst of winter make a night jump into the Austrian Alps, landing hip-deep in snow at 10,000 feet. William Casey--then an OSS official and later head of the CIA--called it by far the most successful of the operations mounted from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275954706
• ISBN13: 9780275954703
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"