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Case By Case [Hardcover]

Ib Melchior (Author)

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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Praeger Publishers; 1st Edition edition (Aug 8 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0891414444
  • ISBN-13: 978-0891414445
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 680 g

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From Publishers Weekly

Melchior's WW II adventures as an Army counterintelligence agent in the European Theater of Operations included escorting a defecting German scientist through the lines and capturing a Nazi general. He admits that "working constantly with informers and saboteurs, spies and war criminals, made it difficult not to become callous," and he doesn't hesitate to recount the bullying tactics he used to force prisoners to talk. Most of the displaced persons, fugitives, miscreants and war criminals he dealt with are presented here as thoroughly loathsome--either obsequious jellyfish or bristling with Nazi arrogance. Despite its disagreeable aspects, however, the memoir is engaging, especially when Melchior recalls the interrogation techniques he devised and the imaginative schemes by which Nazis tried to escape arrest or obtain preferential treatment. Melchior is the author of Order of Battle: Hitler's Werevolves. Photos.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Real-life spy and counterespionage stories always seem more satisfying than the most skillfully contrived fiction. In this book, action novelist Melchior recalls the World War II experiences that furnished the grist for his own thrilling titles like Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves (Presidio, 1991). Volunteering as a professional intelligence agent, he underwent intricate and devious training before being sent to operate on both sides of the enemy lines in France and Germany. Forty years later he revisited the sites of his clandestine activities. Numerous fascinating details of the creation, deployment, and field operations of the Allied intelligence framework make this a fast-moving and exciting book for serious military collections as well as the adventure shelves.
- Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great WW2 True story, Jan 21 2012
By djr - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Case By Case (Hardcover)
This is a story I didn't want to put down. Also an example of the intelligence gathering we need today. His language abilities were probably key to success.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the Best Counterintelligence Non-Fiction Work Published, Aug 4 2011
By Jose Serrano De La Frontera (A "Golden Gloves") - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Case By Case (Hardcover)
This is a fantastic work of non-fiction, decumenting the WW2 war time work of a counterintelligence agent in the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). It should be a standard text for the CI Agent. The Author, Ib Melchoir, details many of the cases he was involved with working against Nazi Germany military and intelligence forces toward the end of the war. His accounts are thrilling at times, and not only detail numerous intelligence and counterintelligence operations on both Allied and Axis sides, but also serve to document the historical events surrounding this remarkable period in WW2 history. This book is a quick read and I simply could not put it down. It reads better than most fictional spy books, in that the events are true. An amazing work worthy of reviewing. I highly recommend this book.
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