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Article: The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War Against Japan.(Book review)
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- Military Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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THE OSS AND HO CHI MINH: Unexpected Allies in the War Against Japan, Dixee Bartholomew-Feis, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 2006, 425 pages, $34.95.
Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis takes the reader into the heart of World War II special operations with her thorough examination of the working relationship between the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Ho Chi Mirth. The story she paints is anything but simple. Brigadier General William Donovan's OSS worked under the basic assumption that the only thing necessary for a working relationship with nonstate actors such as the Viet Minh was agreement on the common enemy. Donovan's people could never be accused of ...