| International Standard Book Number |
9781250285850
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250285852
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| Personal Name |
Drury, Bob author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86057538
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| Title Statement |
The Phantom : the untold story of the American Marine the Nazis could not kill / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Untold story of the American Marine the Nazis could not kill.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue -- Part I: The Spymaster. 'Wild Bill' -- 'A museum and a cabbage patch' -- 'Germany first' -- 'Resistance aborning' -- Part II: The Legionnaire. 'To live a man's life' -- 'Impregnable' Pearl Harbor -- The escape artist -- 'The Donovan Affair' -- Esprit de marine corps -- Lighting the TORCH -- Semper spy -- Blood and sand -- Tell it to the Marines -- 'The strangest assemblage' -- First Union -- Part III: The saboteur. First blood -- The belly of the beast -- The comet line -- Marines redeux -- The dirty half dozen -- Capitaine Bulle -- Das fantom returns -- Discovered -- Part IV: The Sacrifice. Saving Centron -- Property of the Wehrmacht -- A final execution -- Flight of the Valkyries -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Colonel Pete Ortiz's awards and commendations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Soldier, spy, scout, saboteur, and French Resistance leader in the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe--the untold story of Marine legend Pete Ortiz. Major Pierre "Pete" Ortiz was a Manhattan-born and Paris-educated polymath fluent in five languages. An adventuresome French Foreign Legion veteran specifically recruited by "Wild" Bill Donovan's Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to both the CIA and U.S. Special Forces) upon his enlistment in the Marines, Ortiz was the officer "Wild Bill" instinctively knew he needed and could rely on to complete a string of clandestine missions. While recuperating from gunshot wounds received during a behind-the-lines excursion into enemy-held North Africa, Ortiz delivered his After-Action Report directly to Donovan in Washington. After reading it, "Wild Bill" scrawled across the top of the report: "Please re-employ this man as soon as possible." Ortiz's handlers heeded Donovan's request. Within a year Ortiz was surreptitiously parachuted into the Haute Savoie region of Occupied France, where he made contact with the resistance fighters who called themselves Maquisards. By the time he retired as a United States Marine Corps colonel, he received two Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism in World War II. He was one of the very few U.S. Marines to serve in combat in Europe during World War II, and one of the most decorated Marine officers of the war"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Ortiz, Peter J., 1913-1988
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| Subject |
United States. Marine Corps Officers.
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| Subject |
United States. Office of Strategic Services
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spies United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Marines United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Multilingual persons United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
France History German occupation, 1940-1945.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Clavin, Tom, 1954- author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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