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4.5
This was the most mind bending book I have read in a long time. It is based on true OSS Missions during World War II by an American led team. The person who wrote the book could not divulge anything about his war missions until he was deceased, so he wrote the book and passed it on to someone else to publish. He was called The American Fox by the Germans and had a $300,000 reward on his head. Missions he accomplished as the team leader changed the war. Blowing up a fuel depot of the Germans helped Patton's 3rd Army proceed, as the Germans had no fuel for their final big attack at at the Battle of the Bulge. Another secret mission tricked Hitler to move his prime troops south of Normandy, so that we had much less resistance for D-Day. German generals were skeptical, but had to follow Hitler's ideas. Another mission just happened to encounter some Death Squad Germans with captured Jews on the way to death camps, and even though saving the Jewish children and adults was not part of his mission, he was presented the choice to try to save them, taking more risks for his team, and he did, on the way to completing the mission to rescue a scientist from a Nazi prison. On another mission, he found some ancient Christian relics in a cave in France, and one of them was a shield that gave him a sense or protection on his missions. Over all, I just could not stop reading this book till I was done. After finishing it, I re watched the movie Patton to see if some of the things mentioned in this book were in the movie. In Patton, we do not know exactly WHY the Germans suddenly went south leaving Normandy, even though the German generals did not want to do that, but Hitler had some information that made him decide to move the troops. They thought maybe Patton was going to lead a landing farther South, and moved troops out of the Normandy area by the same day as D-Day. But, IF this book is true, NOW we know WHY Hitler thought he should move away from Normandy. The guy who wrote this book supposedly did a mission that planted false information that got to Hitler and again changed the war. Even so, he got no credit and had to deny all that he did in the war. He changed the outcome of the war, but no one even heard of him, except in this book. A fascinating look at history. There is something about the Spear of Longinus which is not in another book I have on that, so I am not sure which version of capturing that is true, but it got me going on more research about that. An eye opening read for sure.
