Alliance of Enemies The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II

Alliance of Enemies tells the thrilling history of the secret World War II relationship between Nazi Germany's espionage service, the Abwehr, and the American OSS, predecessor of the CIA. By miningsecret WWII files only recently declassified, personal interviews, diaries, and previously unpublished accounts to unearth some of history's surprises, authors von Hassell and MacRae shed new light on Franklin Roosevelt's surprising stance toward Hitler before the United States entered the war, and on the relationship of American business to the Third Reich. They offer vivid details on the German resistance's desperate efforts first to avert war and then to make common cause with enemy representatives to end it. And their work details the scope and depth of German resistance and its many plots to eliminate Hitler and why they failed. Alliance of Enemiesfills a huge void in our knowledge of the hidden, layered warfareand the attempts for peace---of World War II. Nowhere has such a complete and provocative history of the wars behind WWII been told---until now.

Agostino von Hassell runs a consulting group in New York engaged in national security issues and trade problems. His grandfather Ulrich von Hassell was one of the participants in the July 20, 1944, resistance plot Sigrid MacRae graduated from Columbia University and has been an editor and translator. She writes on history and art and lives in New York