About the Author

Allen Welsh Dulles (1893-1969), the younger brother of John Foster Dulles, held diplomatic posts in Vienna and Bern during World War I and was OSS station chief in Bern during World War II. Appointed director of the CIA in 1953, he was also the author of The Boer War and The Craft of Intelligence.Peter Hoffmann of McGill University is the author of The History of the German Resistance 1933-45 and Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944.