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Summary: The funniest book of all time
Review: Some time ago, almost 30 years ago to be exact, I read this book. I'd picked it up at a second-hand paperback store for a dime because the title caught my eye. I read it in one sitting, laughing out loud literally. I was so boisterous, I scared my co-workers on the midnight shift! I read the book over and over until I eventually lost it during a housemove. Now, with 2 sons, 25 and 22, I found myself wishing I'd had a copy to share with them. When we first got online, I spent hours looking for it, but no luck. Last Christmas, I happened to find it listed on Amazon prior to being released again. I've read it again and laughed HARDER and LOUDER than I did years ago.
The book chronicles Hall's experiences as a young army officer during WWII who volunteers for a mysterious clandestine organization, the OSS. His riotous re-telling of his training and experiences will bring a smile to even the most dour face. It's like like one of the other reviewers said---Dave Barry meets the OSS!
I know my boys will love reading this book---if I ever put it down long enough to share with them!
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Summary: It's the funniest thing I've ever read
Review: Some time ago, almost 30 years ago to be exact, I read this book. I'd picked it up at a second-hand paperback store for a dime because the title caught my eye. I read it in one sitting, laughing out loud literally. I was so boisterous, I scared my co-workers on the midnight shift! I read the book over and over until I eventually lost it during a housemove. Now, with 2 sons, 25 and 22, I found myself wishing I'd had a copy to share with them. When we first got online, I spent hours looking for it, but no luck. Last Christmas, I happened to find it listed on Amazon prior to being released again. I've read it again and laughed HARDER and LOUDER than I did years ago.
The book chronicles Hall's experiences as a young army officer during WWII who volunteers for a mysterious clandestine organization, the OSS. His riotous re-telling of his training and experiences will bring a smile to even the most dour face. It's like like one of the other reviewers said---Dave Barry meets the OSS!
I know my boys will love reading this book---if I ever put it down long enough to share with them!
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Summary: Superbly funny!
Review: When I was in Junior High School and High School, I would walk 1.77 miles to school and 1.77 miles to home every day. To make good use of my time, I would read a book on the way to school and on the way home. I read hundreds of books on these trips over a period of six years. Of all of the books I read, there are two books I vividly remember. "Your Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger" is one of the two. I actually read this book several times. Then, after two years of college, I found myself enlisting in the US Army. I ended up in the United States Army Intelligence School (USAINTS) at Fort Holabird, Maryland. After a couple of days of classes, I began thinking: "This is Deja Vu all over again." Then I began comparing what I was going through with a book I had read. Wow! I was becoming the guy who wrote "Your Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger!"When you first read this book, it sounds like great fiction. In reality, it is an accurate reflection of the author's experience. While the book is about World War II, it also reflects what military intelligence, CIA and other "spooks" are doing daily today. We got to play with the highest level of technology available to anybody. I was in Intelligence Collection overseas and in Counter Intelligence in the U.S. Much of the activity I was involved in can only be done overseas because it is illegal to do it in the U.S. Overseas, I was in the Headquarters of the 525th Military Intelligence Group at "The Ponderosa" in northern Saigon. We hired and fired spy rings and native agents. We had rows of high security filing cabinets with dossiers on just about every espionage agents in Vietnam.\ This book is still a great tale about what it's like to be involved in espionage. It's great for all ages. If you have any interest in espionage, this is one of the "must read" books of all time involving espionage. Even all of the hilarious episodes are accurate descriptions of what really happens among spies.
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