Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS.
MCINTOSH, Elizabeth P.
Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS.
Sisterhood of Spies; Signed by Elizabeth P. McIntosh
Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
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Item Number: 151639
First edition, early printing of this historical work documenting the 4,000 women who served in America’s WWII intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Elizabeth P. McIntosh on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS (1998) by Elizabeth P. McIntosh is a work of popular history that recovers the largely overlooked contributions of the approximately 4,000 women who served in the Office of Strategic Services — the wartime intelligence agency that preceded the CIA — during the Second World War. McIntosh was uniquely positioned to write the book: a one-time war correspondent, she joined the OSS in 1943 and was assigned to running morale operations against the Japanese in Burma and China, before going on to become a longtime employee of the CIA. Drawing on her own firsthand experience as well as interviews with more than 100 OSS women who served across multiple theaters, McIntosh documents a broad spectrum of wartime roles — from clandestine field operations to cryptography, propaganda, and analysis — populated by figures ranging from household names like Julia Child and Marlene Dietrich to lesser-known operatives such as Virginia Hall, who earned a Distinguished Service Cross for her work with the French Resistance running an underground railroad for downed fliers.
