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Author
Series
Honor bound volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and a lot on his hands. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked him to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two...
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program.
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 5
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
Author
Series
Corps volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
When a man who calls himself "General" Fertig sets himself up as a guerilla leader to harass the Japanese, Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy heads a mission behind enemy lines in order to discern which of the stories about Fertig are true
6) Close combat
Author
Series
Corps volume 6
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
An epic novel of World War II brings the saga of The Corps into exciting arenas all over the Pacific, as American forces brace to defend Guadalcanal from an all-out effort by the Japanese to recapture the island. From Iwo Jima to Australia to Washington, old faces and new are faced with the challenge of their lives.
Author
Series
Men at war volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The fourth volume of W.E.B. Griffin's bestselling saga of the OSS during World War II, originally published under the pen name Alex Baldwin. The time is early 1943: In the Philippines, a ragtag American guerrilla army battles the Japanese, under a most unusual commander. In Budapest, an agent must keep two key prisoners from being interrogated by the Gestapo, his only choices being to rescue them -- or kill them. In Washington, an Army Air Corps captain...
Author
Series
Men at war volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Canidy, Fulmar, and their colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services work to convince Axis forces that the Allies are not planning an invasion of Sicily, an effort that is undermined by a traitor. David Niven, Peter Ustinov, and James Bond creator Ian Fleming are characters.
Author
Series
Men at war volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Major Richard Caniday of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II spy agency, embarks on a mission to smuggle a scientist out of Germany. The scientist is an expert on jet aircraft, which both sides are racing to build.
10) The saboteurs
Author
Series
Men at war volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
A new OSS adventure finds the agents of Wild Bill Donovan fighting the Battle of the Atlantic on two fronts, a situation that is compromised by a possible saboteur.
11) Battleground
Author
Series
Corps volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
In this electrifying novel of the U.S. Marine Corps, the master of authentic military action and drama reveals the story of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific: the epic struggle for Guadalcanal.
12) The spymasters
Author
Series
Men at war volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"It is summer 1943. Two of the Allies' most important plans are at grave risk--Operation Overlord's invasion of France and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. A furious President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan--and Donovan turns to Dick Canidy and his teams behind enemy lines. They've certainly got their work cut out for them. In the weeks to come, they must fight the Axis in many ways, to try to find and sabotage...
13) Secret honor
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The third in a series of novels about World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina follows the activities of a German general and his son who are working toward the assassination of Adolf Hitler, and Cletus Prade, a rogue agent with the OSS who is trying to keep himself and the German agents alive until their goal is achieved.
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