<p><span class="deck">An eyewitness recreates a wonderful, wacky day in August, 1944, when Hemingway, a handful of other Americans, and a s</span>eñorita <span class="deck">named Elena helped rekindle the City of Light. Champagne ran in rivers, and the squeals inside the tanks were not from grit in the bogie wheels.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The furious speaker was Field Marshal Kesselring. The time was 1944. And the “shadow” was cast by Italian partisans and a handful of brave Americans from General Bill Donovan’s O.S.S.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The least-understood branch of our military was born 60 years ago but today is coming into prominence as never before.</span></p>
<p>The origins of today’s vast intelligence apparatus can be traced, in part, to the forgotten efforts of librarians and archivists to gather information during World War II</p>