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Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2003. 343pp/illus. In this first intensive study of the invasion, Alexander Rossino provides a comprehensive study of the Polish campaign, in… Mehr…

Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kansas, 2003. 343pp/illus. In this first intensive study of the invasion, Alexander Rossino provides a comprehensive study of the Polish campaign, including disturbing new insights into its racist and ideological underpinnings.Rossino tells how this invasion melded the ideology of the Nazi party with Germany’s military yearning for empire in the East. The Polish campaign was important as the first step in Hitler’s drive for "living space" for Germans in Eastern Europe, and as the blitzkrieg decimated urban residential areas, civilians soon became indistinguishable from combatants. In addition to describing military operations, Rossino also provides a close analysis of SS plans to murder Polish leaders, German army reprisal policies, and the close collaboration of Wehrmacht and SS forces in the subjugation and execution of Polish citizens.. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Univ Pr of Kansas, 2003, 4, Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Good. v, [1], 118 pages. Wrap. Illustration. Department of State Publication 2423. Name written on front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Axis powers, also known as the Axis and the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces. The Axis powers agreed on their opposition to the Allies, but did not completely coordinate their activity. The Axis grew out of the diplomatic efforts of Germany, Italy, and Japan to secure their own specific expansionist interests in the mid-1930s. The first step was the treaty signed by Germany and Italy in October 1936. Benito Mussolini declared on 1 November that all other European countries would from then on rotate on the Rome-Berlin axis, thus creating the term "Axis". The almost simultaneous second step was the signing in November 1936 of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty between Germany and Japan. Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The "Rome-Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the so-called "Pact of Steel", with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies. At its zenith during World War II, the Axis presided over territories that occupied large parts of Europe, North Africa, and East Asia. There were no three-way summit meetings and cooperation and coordination was minimal, with a bit more between Germany and Italy. The war ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers and the dissolution of their alliance. CONTENTS General Policy Anglo-American Conference, 1941 Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941 Anglo-Soviet-American Conference, Moscow, 1943 Declaration on General Security, Released November 1, 1943 Declaration on German Atrocities, Released November 1, 1943 Anglo-Sino-American Conference, Cairo, 1943 Declaration, Released December 1, 1943 Anglo-Soviet-American Conference, Tehran, 1943 Declaration, December 1, 1943 Anglo-Soviet-American Conference, Crimea, 1945 Joint Report (Excerpts), February 11, 1945 President Roosevelt's Report (Excerpts), March 1, 1945 Anglo-Soviet-American Conference, Berlin, 1945 Joint Report (Excerpts), Released August 2, 1945 President Truman's Report (Excerpts), August 9, 1945 Surrender GERMANY Instrument of surrender of all German armed forces in Holland, in northwest Germany including all islands, and in Denmark, May 4, 1945 Act of Military Surrender, May 7, 1945 Act of Military Surrender, May 8, 1945 President Truman's Radio Address and Proclamation, May 8,1945 JAPAN Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender (Potsdam Declaration), July 26, 1945 Japanese Offer of Surrender, August 10, 1945 Japanese Acceptance of Potsdam Declaration, August 14, 1945 Japanese Surrender Documents, September 1-2, 1945 President Truman's Radio Address, September 1, 1945 Occupation GERMANY Directive to Commander in Chief of United States Forces of Occupation Regarding the Military Government of Germany, April 1945 (Released October 17, 1945) American Organizational Plans for Military Government of Germany, Released May 11, 1945 Declaration Regarding Defeat of Germany and Assumption of Supreme Authority by Allied Powers, June 5, 1945 Zones of Occupation Arrangements for Control of Germany by Allied Representatives, September 20, 1945 Military Government in Germany: Employment of Nazis in United States Zone, September 26, 1945 Displaced Persons in Germany Present Operations, Released May 25,1945 Report of Earl G. Harrison, Released September 29, 1945 Reply of General Eisenhower, October 8, 1945 German Reparations: Statement by Edwin W. Pauley, Released August 30, 1945 JAPAN United States Proposal for Establishment of Far Eastern Advisory Commission, August 21, 1945 (Released October 10, 1945) U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan, August 29, 1945 Authority of General MacArthur as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, September 6, 1945 Directive of General MacArthur to the Japanese Government, October 4, 1945., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945, 2.5, Berlin: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. Good with no dust jacket. 2018. Hardcover. 3631745176 . 382, [ii] pages. Bibliography, index, annex. Octavo. Cream hardcover with brown band, image of 1938 German newspaper. Remains of library sticker top front, interior has two library stamps, otherwise clean and unmarked. Very usable copy. "Between 1904 and 1907, German soldiers, settlers and mercenaries committed mass murder in Africa. Can this be considered the first genocide of the 20th century? Was it a forecast of the Third Reich’s extermination policy in Central and Eastern Europe? This book provides the answer. Based on extensive archival and library research in Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Germany and Poland as well as on the most recent and up-to-date jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals, the renowned historian and political scientist Klaus Bachmann paints a new and surprising picture of the events and their legal significance, which many will find disturbing and provocative. It abolishes many well-established interpretations about German colonialism and its alleged links with the Third Reich and provides a new and intriguing contribution to the current post-colonial debate. "; Geschichte – Erinnerung – Politik. Studies In History, Memory And Politics; Vol. 21; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages ., Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 2018, 2.5, Complete edition in the original publisher's binding (half-linen OHLn / HLn 8vo in the format 14.5 x 22 cm) with spine and cover title including cover vignette (Nazi national emblem). 117 pages, with a full-page frontispiece photo illustration "The Führer and his Field Marshal", another 45 photo illustrations on art paper, 4 maps and a foreword by Field Marshal Hermann Göring, font: Fraktur. - With statements typical of the time such as: "Comrades! For weeks and months you have experienced with clenched fists and gritted teeth the unheard of and unbelievable provocations that a state structure that emerged from the madness of the Versailles Dictate" (Poland) "dared to offer the Greater German Reich. This Measure is full. The German people can no longer stand by the criminal activity to which hundreds and thousands of our comrades in the former German eastern provinces have already fallen victim. Any further hesitation would now be tantamount to giving up the sacred rights to life of the German nation. Comrades ! The Führer has called! Your great hour is here! The air force - for years the most effective instrument of the Führer's peace policy - now has to prove that it is there at the decisive moment to fulfill its enormous task. The trust of the Führer and the German people to you... Anti-aircraft artillerymen! You will bring down every attacker. Every shot from your guns will save the lives of your wives, mothers and children, and will guarantee the safety of the entire German people. Comrades! I now look each of you in the eye and oblige each of you to give everything for the people and the fatherland. At your head, our beloved leaders, behind you the German nation, completely united under National Socialism. There is only one solution for us: Victory! Hermann Göring, Field Marshal" - Greater Germany in World War II, German / Third / Greater German Reich, Blitzkrieg, National Socialism, bombing war against Poland, unprecedented successes of the German Air Force in Poland, operations of the German Wehrmacht in the East, incredible speed of the victorious Polish campaign , underestimation of German military strength by the Polish army command, Adolf Hitler and the German Wehrmacht, National Socialist propaganda, front reporting, Eastern Front war reporting, the Führer's armed forces, illustrated book from the time of National Socialism, German military before 1945, PK, photography, foreign deployment of the Wehrmacht, Greater Germany's soldiers in the picture, Poland campaign, fighter pilot, the German soldier's face, front fighter for Germany, Knight's Cross holder, deployment on the Polish front, imperishable German soldiering, front shots, German front officer, anti-aircraft defense, Anti-aircraft guns in action, fighter pilots, members of the Wehrmacht in the picture, the leader among his soldiers, ethnic / National Socialist ideas). - War print / first edition in good condition., 0, New York: Dial Press, 1944. Book. Good. Hardcover. Eighth Printing. Shelf wear, rubbing wear to the extremities. Very light foxing to the fore-edge and bottom edge of the page block. Personalized inscription from the author on the half-title page: "For my friend Freddy ___ with best wishes, Pierre Van Paassen." On the verso of the half-title page is a gift inscription to the previous owner. The dust jacket is chipped and edge-worn, but no large tears or staining. Protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. 343 pages. Endpaper maps, The Arab World, with Palestine highlighted. 1969 newspaper article about the future of the Middle East laid in at the front of the book. From the OCLC WorldCat summary of this book: "The Forgotten Ally is a beautifully written book, as the New York Times review describes it--The expression of one of the most passionately generous hearts in the writing profession. Van Paassen writes with the power and fervor of a latter-day prophet, without forgetting the need for facts, figures and documentation.--Review of Chicago Sun Times. Shortly after World War One, Van Paassen started his career as a journalist at The Globe, a Canadian newspaper in Toronto. His next job as a journalist was at the great southern liberal newspaper, The Atlanta Constitution. This is where Van Paassen actively became interested in Jewish affairs after interviewing a Rabbi from New York who had just returned from Mandatory Palestine. From this point on, Van Paassen took a great personal interest in the issues of Palestine and the plight of European Jewry. In 1925, he became the foreign correspondent for the New York Evening World, which placed him in Paris. The stage was being set for World War Two and the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy from which Van Paassen passionately reported. In 1931, the New York Evening World stopped publishing; Van Paassen remained in France and wrote for the Globe and its competitor the Toronto Star. In 1933, Van Paassen, a fluent German speaker, reported on the Nazis and courageously exposed the doctrines and policies of Hitler's fascist regime. His news reports greatly upset the Nazis, and the Toronto Star became known as "atrocity propaganda." The newspaper was banned from Germany and Van Paassen was expelled but not before he was imprisoned by the Nazis for several weeks, which included some physical blows to Van Paassen's own person. Van Paassen spent quite some time in Palestine and wrote extensively for his newspapers and wrote many books on the subject."., Dial Press, 1944, 2.25, Some minor rubbing. VG. Textual illustrations. Archaeology Routledge London (1994) orig. wrappers 23x15cm, xxvi,319 pp., PAPERBACK. Series: One World Archaeology, 12. Contains 23 papers from the session of the World Archaeological Congress, held in Southampton, England in September 1986. Includes: The heritage of ethnocentricity: the western world view in archaeological atlases [Chris Scarre]; public presentations and private concerns - archaeology in the pages of "National Geographic" [Joan Gero and Dolores Root]; American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past [Michael L.Blakey] Afro- Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape [Robert Paynter]; the W.E.B.DuBois boyhood homesite - a case study in the politics of historical archeology; black people and museums - the Caribbean heritage project in Southampton [Ronald Belgrave]; "volk und Germanentum" - the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany [W.J. McCann]; Rulers and ruled: Maori control of the Maori heritage [Stephen O'Regan]; Nga Tukemata - Nga Taonga o Ngati Kahungunu (The Awakening - The Treasures of Ngati Kahungunu) [David J. Butts]; God's police and damned whores - images of archaeology in Hawaii [ Matthew Spriggs]; aboriginal perceptions of the past - the implications for cultural resource management in Australia [Howard Creamer]; search for the missing link - archaeology and the public in Lebanon [Helga Seeden]; the legacy of Eve [Stan Jones and Sharon Pay]; museums - two case studies of reaction to colonialism [Frank Willett]; cultural education in West Africa - archeological perspectives [Nwanna Nzewunwa]; irreconcilable issues? - culture houses in Zimbabwe [Peter J.Ucko]; the development of museums in Botswana - dilemmas and tensions in a front-line state; etc., Routledge, 3, Beograd: RAD. Good with no dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. Covers soiled and rubbed, well toned text but not brittle, edgeworn, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Serbian language translation of Theodor Plievier's novel Moskau, the second written but first chronologically of his World War II eastern front trilogy - Moskau, Stalingrad, Berlin. Plevier's World War One experiences in the German navy infused his anti-war, progressive novels of the early 1930s, which led to a Nazi ban on his work and his flight into exile in the Soviet Union. He returned to eastern Germany in 1945, and fled to western Germany in 1947. His WWII trilogy is strongly anti-war, condemning the both the Hitler and Stalin regimes for the wanton destruction and brutality their totalitarian regimes unleashed, as well as not sparing the German people of war guilt for having supported and encouraged the Nazi regime. His Stalingrad novel sharply condemns the German officers who were indifferent to the "heroic" massacre of their soldiers during the final three weeks after the refusal of the Russian terms of surrender led to a gruesome and futile battle to the death. "As in Stalingrad, the vivid description in Moscow of the immense suffering caused by the German attack on the Soviet Union, and by the Soviet regime, its historically accurate recreations of the battles of Bialystok and Minsk, and the immediacy with which it shows the chaos and terror of war, contributed to the success of the novel." - Jennifer E Michaels; "The War in the East: Theodor Plievier's Novels Moscow, Stalingrad, and Berlin" in Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture; page 42. It is interesting to notice that despite the author's condemnations of Stalin's policies, this Serbian language translation was published under the Tito regime the same year as the German original. Quite uncommon edition of Plievier's powerful anti-war novel. ; 505 pages ., RAD, 1953, 2.5, College Station, Texas: Texas A& M University Press, 1998. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxvi, 307, [3] pages. Minor soiling inside front cover and on fep near bottom. DJ has minor wear. Includes List of Maps, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes chapters on The Window on the Atlantic; The Demand for Casablanca; The Specter of de Gaulle; The Riddle of the Rock; September Shifts; October Illusions; Winter Collapse I: Iberia; Winter Collapse II: France; and Passing the Torch. Also contains 2 frontispiece maps, one of Morocco, 1940-42, and one of Northwest Africa, June 1940-Novermber 1942. Norman J. W. Goda (born 1961) is an American historian specialized in the history of the Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is a professor of history at the University of Florida, where he is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies. Goda is the author of several books on the international policy of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. He also serves as a historical consultant for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group of the United States National Security Archive, tasked with reviewing the previously-classified intelligence documents of the World War II and its aftermath. Goda is the co-author of the book U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, which was published in 2005 by the Cambridge University Press and based on the materials that were declassified under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The author questions both the more traditional interpretations that Hitler's Germany operated from unplanned opportunism and that its aims were confined to the European continent. His extremely close reading of the diplomatic and military sources from German, Spanish, and French records also opens new windows on the policies of Franco's Spain and Petain's France. By focusing on policy formulation and implementation at the political and diplomatic level, he adds substantial evidence for the view that Hitler's ambitions were not just grandiose table talk, but formed the basis for concrete military plans and building projects. Military historians and scholars of World War II will welcome this assiduously researched and well-crafted study for the light it throws on some of the classic arguments of the period. As early as the 1920s Adolf Hitler argued that his struggle for dominance would be worldwide. Before war began in Europe, Berlin had already placed contracts for a massive surface navy and four-engine bombers that could cross the Atlantic. Norman J. W. Goda traces the documentary evidence of Germany's long-term plans to extend its conquests to America. This cogently argued book focuses on Germany's secret efforts to gain base sites for the new navy and long-range bombers in French North West Africa, Spain's Canary Islands, and Portugal's Azores and Cape Verde Islands. During this period Hitler rated the base issue a higher priority than the efficient prosecution of the war against Great Britain and second only to the Eastern Campaign. In the end, Berlin failed to gain base sites. The effort antagonized Spain and France, pushing them away from a more actively pro-German stance. Germany also misjudged America's capability to capture the sites and consequently left Northwest Africa relatively unprepared for the Allied invasion of 1942., Texas A& M University Press, 1998, 3, [London]: Philip Allan, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this English translation. Hardcover. Good. v, [3], 390, [2] pages. Frontis illustration. Index. Some cover wear and soiling. Some page discoloration. Name in pencil on fep. Contains sixteen chapters: The Birth of a Family; Home and Childhood; War Experiences as a Subaltern; Staff Officer and General and Corps Commander; The Laurel-Crowned General; Commander-in-Chief in the East; The Hindenburg and Ludendorff Condominium; The Collapse; Intermezzo; The Presidential Candidate; The President Takes the Oath; First Magistrate of the Republic; A Breathing Space; The Tribute Controversy; Democracy at the Crossroads, and Liberation. Gerhard Schultze-Pfaelzer (born July 7, 1891 in Darkehmen , October 13, 1952 in Berlin ) was a German writer and political publicist and a close confidante of the Reich President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg. Schultze-Pfaelzer studied history and political science in Tübingen, Vienna and Leipzig and a doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on the philosophy of Hegel Dr. phil. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Berlin. After he did his military service in World War I from 1914 to 1917. Due to an accident, he worked in the Image and Film Office from 1917 until the end of the war. In 1934 Schultze-Pfaelzer was imprisoned for several months because, according to his own account, he was able to uncover the lie of the Hindenburg Testament, which allegedly recommended Adolf Hitler as his successor. Gerhard Schultze-Pfaelzer appeared on June 18, 1947 in the Nuremberg war criminals trial against Franz von Papen as a witness of the large court. Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 - 2 August 1934) was a German general and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. During his presidency, he played a key role in the Nazi seizure of power in January 1933 when, under pressure from advisers, he appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Paul von Hindenburg was born on 2 October 1847 to Prussian nobility. He saw combat during the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars. In 1873, he was admitted to the prestigious Kriegsakademie in Berlin where he studied for 3 years before being appointed to the Army's General Staff Corps. Later in 1885, he was promoted to the rank of major and became a member of the Great General Staff. Following a five-year teaching stint at the Kriegsakademie, Hindenburg steadily rose through the army's ranks to become a lieutenant-general by 1900. Around the time of his promotion to General of the Infantry in 1905, Count Alfred von Schlieffen recommended that he succeed him as Chief of the Great General Staff but the post ultimately went to Helmuth von Moltke in January 1906. In 1911, Hindenburg announced his retirement from the military. Following World War I's outbreak in July 1914, he was recalled to military service and quickly achieved fame on the Eastern Front as the victor of Tannenberg. Subsequently, he oversaw a crushing series of victories against the Russians that made him a national hero and the center of a massive personality cult. By 1916, Hindenburg's popularity had risen to the point that he replaced General Erich von Falkenhayn as Chief of the Great General Staff. Thereafter, he and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, exploited Emperor Wilhelm II's broad delegation of power to the German Army to establish a de facto military dictatorship that dominated national policy for the rest of the war. Under their leadership, Germany secured Russia's defeat in the east and achieved advances on the Western Front deeper than any seen since the conflict's outbreak. However, by the end of 1918, all improvements in Germany's fortunes were reversed after the German Army was decisively defeated in the Second Battle of the Marne and the Allies' Hundred Days Offensive. Upon his country's capitulation to the Allies in the November 1918 armistice, Hindenburg stepped down as Germany's commander-in-chief before retiring once again from military service in 1919. In 1925, Hindenburg returned to public life to become the second elected President of the German Weimar Republic. While he was personally opposed to Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, he nonetheless played a major role in the political instability that resulted in their rise to power. Upon twice dissolving the Reichstag in 1932, Hindenburg ultimately agreed to appoint Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 when the Nazis won a plurality in the November elections. In response to the Reichstag Fire allegedly committed by Marinus van der Lubbe, he approved the Reichstag Fire Decree in February 1933 which suspended various civil liberties. Later in March, he signed the Enabling Act of 1933 which gave the Nazi regime emergency powers. After Hindenburg died the following year, Hitler combined the Presidency with his office as Chancellor., Philip Allan, 1931, 2.5, Bantam Books, 1966. Presumed First Bantam Edition [stated]. Presumed First printing. Mass market paperback. Good. x, 691, [3] pages. Maps. Some cover and edge soiling Includes chapters on Moscow, Leningrad; Rostov, Winter Battle, The Ports on the Arctic Ocean, The Caucasus and the Oilfields, and Stalingrad. Also includes Appendix, Acknowledgment, Bibliography, and Index of Names. Paul Carell (born Paul Karl Schmidt; 2 November 1911, Kelbra - 20 June 1997) was a writer and propagandist. Schmidt served as the chief press spokesman for Joachim von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry. In this capacity during WWII, he maintained close ties with the Wehrmacht, while he served in the Allgemeine-SS (General SS). One of his specialties was the "Jewish question". After the war, Carell became a successful author, although some critics have claimed that his books romanticized and whitewashed the Wehrmacht. Paul Karl Schmidt became a member of the Nazi Party in 1931 and a member of the SS in 1938. He graduated from university in 1934, and became an assistant at the Institute of Psychology of the Universität Kiel in Germany. He held several positions in the Nazi Student Association. Schmidt was arrested on 6 May 1945 and interned for 30 months. During the Ministries Trial, part of the Nuremberg Trials, he finally appeared as a witness for the prosecution, and portrayed himself as a fighter for democratic freedom of the press. After World War II, Schmidt became a writer. Aided by the network of 'old comrades' working in the publishing industry, he was able to secure assignments. Starting in the 1950s, he wrote for the popular magazine Kristall. He first used the pseudonym Paul Karell, and later Paul Carell. One of the Most Ingenious Accounts of a Military Campaign Ever Written! Based on personal interviews with actual participants from both sides, and years of exhaustive research in memoirs, diaries, and documents, the author has dramatically reconstructed Hitler's daring and disastrous campaign in Russia. In every moment, it is easy to follow Hitler's and Stalin's policies and disputes, the positions and movements of the great armies, and the major battles. Vivid anecdotes, seldom fund in a history covering a campaign of such magnitude, convey the actual experience of the men who lived and died in this almost limitless holocaust. Derived from a Kirkus review: One of the most ingenious accounts of a military campaign every written. It provides a procession of nail-sharp details, the almost day-by-day chronicle simmering with narrative expanse, dramatic snapshots of the participants, and an assured scholarship. The subject is the ill-fated German invasion of Russia. The author takes some pains to salvage the Panzer Corps reputation, Hitler's tactical nonsense being held responsible for the '42 fiasco: the bypassing of the capital in favor of the Caucasian oil lands, with the resultant Stalingrad debacle. Each maneuver is strikingly delineated, contrasting both fronts and using highly effectively dialogue, switchbacks, close-ups of civilians, eyewitness interjections, high and low life incidents- all work astonishingly well. A strong success., Bantam Books, 1966, 2.5, New York, New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1977. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good./Very good. xxx, [2], 286, [2] pages. , Introduction. Author's Preface, Index. Some discoloration inside front and rear boards. Inscribed on the front free end paper--inscription reads For Mr. Sanders from Harry Rositzke. Transmission letter from the Association of Former Intelligence Officers laid in. Harry Rositzke was an author, teacher, scholar and spy who for 25 years ran Central Intelligence Agency covert operations against the Soviet Union from Munich, New Delhi, New York and Washington. Mr. Rositzke wrote books about the CIA and the KGB, taught at Harvard University, and, during the Cold War, directed the parachuting of espionage agents into the Ukraine region of the Soviet Union. His books include "The CIA's Secret Operations" (1977) and "The KGB: The Eyes of Russia" (1981). Mr. Rositzke was a veteran of World War II duty with the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor in espionage to the CIA. He volunteered in 1946 to monitor the intelligence operations of the Soviet Union, a major wartime ally against Nazi Germany. In the OSS, he had been chief of military intelligence in London and Paris, and later chief of the steering division in Germany, where he operated out of a former sparkling-wine factory near Wiesbaden. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who became an aide to President John F. Kennedy and a presidential scholar, was one of Mr. Rositzke's OSS colleagues. It came to him as no surprise that Mr. Rositzke opted for a career in intelligence after the war. He wrote "War had made him a professional. Peace evidently offered him a scope for analysis and action on questions more urgent... " This book lets readers see for themselves what the CIA has been doing to detect and to counter Soviet intentions during the Cold War and in the years of detente. As the CIA station chief in New Delhi from 1957 to 1962, Mr. Rositzke's espionage targets were Soviets, Chinese and Tibetans. He lunched monthly with his resident counterpart from the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence arm, and he also developed a working relationship with John Kenneth Galbraith, Kennedy's ambassador to India, who was deeply suspicious of the CIA. Later in the 1960s, he worked on the recruitment by the CIA of Soviet diplomats in Washington and New York and began to focus on terrorism and wars of national liberation. He retired from the CIA in 1970 as chief of the international communism unit. Espionage, he would argue, had a useful role in the maintenance of political order. In all, Mr. Rositzke wrote five books about Soviet affairs, the CIA and the KGB, most of which were intended to supply information for the 1970s public debate that accompanied disclosure of such covert CIA operations as assassination plots and the drugging of people without their knowledge or consent. By this time, Mr. Rositzke's thinking was at variance with the standard political posture of the Cold Warriors of earlier times. Schlesinger described this in his preface to "Secret Operations," as "his skeptical portrait of the 'Cold War mentality,' his conviction that Moscow's postwar strategy was basically defensive, his observations about 'the myth of a communist monolith' and his unsparing critique of the 'military mindedness' of the containment policy." Derived from a Kirkus Review: A series of judgments on the CIA, interspersed with anecdotes, by a 1946-1970 Agency official involved in espionage, counterespionage, and covert operations. Rositzke writes that the CIA became "overstretched" during the Cold War. First the agency allegedly concentrated on developing a warning capability against Soviet military attack, but it soon turned into "an all-purpose action instrument for secretly executing presidential policies" when, in the early 1950s, the USSR launched an "open and covert offensive against the US and Europe." Rositzke and his agents had considerable success recruiting spies, planting and "turning" Eastern diplomats and Communist Party functionaries, and redeploying double agents. But the paramilitary side was an "almost uniform failure": this includes an attempt to overthrow the Albanian government as well as the agency's involvement in lndochina. Rositzke dismisses the recent charges against the CIA as an "exercise in absurdity" which could only aid the Soviet KGB; he also insists that, since the CIA always follows executive orders, it is being made a "fall guy." His recommendations: end our "defensive strategy" of "containment," use "economic power," divide intelligence work from a new, small "secret service," and remember, this is "not a moral world." Rositzke was an important participant and is this an important book., Reader's Digest Press, 1977, 2.75, Hardback. New. Essays provide current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941., 6<

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