I knew from the first page that this book was a joke. I don't know who Ms. Ringlesback interviewed to get her information but they obviously didn't know much about the OSS or Gen. Donovan. I was raised on stories of the OSS and WWII and I really looked forward to reading this book. Silly me.
The statement that President Rooseveldt called on his "good friend", William Donovan to start the OSS made me laugh out loud!! Anyone who knows anything about Bill Donovan knows he was a staunch Republican! Hardly a friend to Pres. Rooseveldt. And the idea behind the OSS did not originate with the President but with the General who went to the President to propose the idea of this undercover group. Starting out with two such huge pieces of misinformation prepared me to disbelieve everything else in this book.
It was all downhill from there. As noted in the previous review, the spelling errors and poor grammatical structure of this book make it sound like it was written by an uneducated 5th grader (my apologies to 5th graders everywhere who have a rudimentary grasp of the English language). I couldn't finish the book. It was a joke.
Ms. Ringlesbach does a huge disservice to the OSS, General Donovan and the men and women who served in the OSS by publishing this book. She needs to stick with fiction and find an editor who is fluent in English.
Teri Donovan Springer (yes, I am related)
Cousin to "Wild Bill" and another original OSS member, William Barrett (whose mother was Olive Donovan, another cousin to the General)Get more detail about OSS: Stories that can now be told.
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