Soldiers, Spies, and the Rat Line: America's Undeclared War Against the Soviets - Hardcover

Milano, James V.; Brogan, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574880500 ISBN 13: 9781574880502

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc, 1995

Synopsis

After Germany’s surrender in World War II, Jim Milano, a young U.S. army intelligence officer, led a small, independent group of soldiers charged with carrying out some of the first intelligence efforts of the postwar era. Inventing the techniques of Cold War espionage for themselves and improvising unorthodox methods, the major and his creative cohorts confounded Soviet forces and created escape routes for defectors. In the pages of Milano’s fascinating memoir you'll find the shadowy world populated by spies, prostitutes, refugees, scoundrels, and heroes comes alive.

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From the Back Cover:

After Germany's surrender in World War II, Jim Milano, a young U.S. Army intelligence officer, led a small, independent group of soldiers charged with carrying out some of the first intelligence efforts of the postwar era. Inventing the techniques of Cold War espionage for themselves, improvising unorthodox methods that Milano now admits were questionable, the major and his creative cohorts spied on and confounded the Soviet occupation forces in Austria, and arranged for defectors from the East to escape along a "rat line" to South America. After Milano's tour of duty ended, his brilliant underground network was used - as he later learned to his horror - to help Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie escape punishment. Soldiers, Spies, and the Rat Line recounts the exciting, frequently rowdy adventures of young men in the dangerous late-1940s Austria of Graham Greene's The Third Man. It is an exciting and amusing true story of America's first troops on a new, clandestine, front line.

About the Author:

James V. Milano commanded the Military Intelligence Service in Austria for a year and a half after the war. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Patrick Brogan is a Washington correspondent for The Herald (Glasgow). His previous books include Deadly Business: The Story of Sam Cummings and Interarms: The Fighting Never Stopped. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1574880500
• ISBN 13: 9781574880502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242