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OSS Up against the Reich presents the recently unpublished World Warfare II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America's first hidden knowledge intelligence company, as he observed the battle against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket episodes on England, and the liberation of Paris. As a top deputy of William J. "Wild Monthly bill" Donovan, founder of the Office of Strategic Services, Bruce placed his diary sporadically in 1942 and made daily entries from the invasion of Normandy before Fight of the Bulge. Bruce got dished up in World Warfare I and, as Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, shifted easily in the wonderful world of commercial and museum boardrooms and New York world. However, World Warfare II gave him a far more serious and gratifying goal in life; the experience of operating the OSS's most important overseas branch validated his lifelong involvement in foreign service. Following the war, together with his second better half, Evangeline, Bruce going the Marshall Plan in France and was ambassador to Paris, Bonn, and London. He further dished up as brain of negotiations at the Paris peace discussions on Vietnam, first American emissary to China and ambassador to NATO.
