Interesting how there's one "rubbish!!" review in Amazon, and the rest say "wow, this resonated, my dad was in OSS and he told me ..."<p>I guess amazon reviews are as prone to subjective bias issues as any other "forum"<p>The book looks interesting. I hesitate to critique without having read and so I think I'm off to the kindle edition. On the whole, what interests me most is how well its written (or not) -I can form my own opinion as to the wisdom of operation paperclip, (which was a scientific version of this one) and the like.<p>Alas, thats the one thing the Amazon reviews seem to lack: Any indication how well it was written.<p>I find this often. I have a book from the 1970s by Peter Hebblethwaite, a catholic historian-journalist who has since died. I love the book. Its entertainly written, easy, and flows well. its a bloody good book. The reviews read like burned on true believers "how dare he write against the papacy, he should burn in hell" or inter-departmental "I was at colombia and let me tell you my professors and I don't rate the english in vatican writing, they don't know what they're talking about" -Nobody seems to say "gee, he wrote well. I wish he hadn't died. I wonder what he'd have made of this current round of papal politics"<p>Or another one "Haig Reconsidered" -which is a very one-eyed australian take on how bad General Haig was. Everyone I speak to says "he's wrong" (the author) but by golly, he wrote well! Its the best one-eyed polemic I've read in ages.<p>Maybe its in the nature of Amazon.