Code Name Dagger
The Incredible True Story of a World War II Soldier, Spy, and Special Forces Legend
2 March 2027 · United States
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Maurer follows one intelligence operative through clandestine work, capture, and escape, making individual resistance the thread through a wartime biography.
About the book
Kevin Maurer recounts the wartime career of Jerry Sage, an American soldier recruited into the emerging intelligence apparatus that became the OSS. His operations in North Africa, capture and repeated escape efforts form a biography of resistance inside and beyond a German prisoner-of-war camp.
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