Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents during World War II

xviii, 376 pp. Maps on endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. It is late 1944, the Allies' lightning summer advance has stalled at the borders of Hitler's Reich. From the high command of the OSS, the order goes out: infiltrate the most ruthless police state ever known - probe the tense nerve centers of Nazi power - bring back crucial first-hand accounts.