Undercover Girl.
MACDONALD, Elizabeth P.
Undercover Girl.
First Edition of Elizabeth P. MacDonald's Undercover Girl
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947.
$375.00
In Stock
Item Number: 151673
First edition of this work chronicling MacDonald’s extraordinary career in the Office of Strategic Services. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with sunning and chipping, and toning to the textblock. Introduction by General William J. Donovan. Accompanied by a laid in typed letter from The Macmillan Company about Elizabeth P. MacDonald and a card stating, “With the Compliments of The Macmillan Company and The Author.” Rare, especially in the original dust jacket.
Undercover Girl is the wartime memoir of Elizabeth Peet MacDonald — better known by her later married name, Elizabeth P. McIntosh — and stands as one of the earliest firsthand accounts of women's service in the Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War. Published with an introduction by Major General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the legendary OSS director who personally oversaw the agency FDR created as the nation's first intelligence organization, the book chronicles MacDonald's work conducting morale operations against the Japanese in Asia. Her fluency in Japanese and background as a war correspondent made her ideally suited for what the OSS termed Moral Operations — the crafting and dissemination of authentic-sounding misinformation designed to demoralize and confuse the enemy — work she carried out while stationed in New Delhi and later Kunming, China, where she befriended the future chef Julia Child. The New York Times praised the book on publication as fast-paced and packed with interest.
