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Recommended Reading: You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
By Lt Col P
Am sitting in the Tampa Airport, on the way back from drill. On the way out I finished an outstanding memoir of life in the OSS in WWII, You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger, by Roger Hall.
Not only is it full of interesting facts about the OSS, it's punctuated with the sort of self-convulsing witticisms that I appreciate. Consider this, the opening line-- "My orders were concise, with hygienic overtones: 'Report to O.S.S. Wash.' "
Above and beyond the well-placed puns, there are some great observations on airborne school at Benning. His experience on the towers, especially the 250-footer, was nearly identical to mine, except that when he went off the thing it was almost brand-new.
Go forth and get a copy, you won't be disappointed.
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Wow, its nice to know that "You're Stepping.." is still being read and appreciated. I haven't seen the new edition so don't know if its stripped down but I read and enjoyed the original way back in the Dark Ages about '56 or so.
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Just followed your link over to Amazon and found an interesting one-star review that claims the 2004 edition is an edited version of the original. Anyone know if this is true and, if it is, why?