Bradley F. Smith

Bradley F. Smith was an American historian and professor. Smith was born in Seattle, but did not do very well at his education and wound up flunking out of formal education. He joined the United States Air Force, where he worked for four years. After his four-year contract, he studied at and graduated from University of California at Berkeley, earning a degree in history. In 1958, he was a Fulbright Scholar who studied in Germany. He taught for thirty-two years at Cabrillo College, from 1960 to 1992. His books on American intelligence and the military, and World War II were "ground-breaking" and award-winning. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the 1990s.

Bradley F. Smith
Born	1931 Seattle
Died	2012 London
Alma mater	University of California at Berkeley, Phi Beta Kappa University of Munich
Occupation(s)	Professor and Historian
Children	Bradley F. Smith (University Dean)

Books and publications

• Adolf Hitler; his family, childhood, and youth (1967)
• Heinrich Himmler: A Nazi in the Making (1971)
• Heinrich Himmler: Geheimreden, 1933 bis 1945, und andere Ansprachen (1974)
• Reaching Judgement at Nuremberg (1977)
• Operation Sunrise: The Secret Surrender (1979)
• The Road to Nuremberg (1981)
• The American road to Nuremberg: the documentary record, 1944-1945 (1982)
• The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA (1983)
• The war's long shadow: the Second World War and its aftermath: China, Russia, Britain, America (1986)
• OSS Jedburgh teams I (1989)
• OSS Jedburgh teams II (1989)
• Other OSS teams (1989)
• The Spy Factory and Secret Intelligence (1989)
• The ultra-magic deals: and the most secret special relationship, 1940-1946 (1992)
• Secret Special Relationship, 1940-1946 (1993)
• Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence 1941-45 (1996)

Archives

• Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt396nf0q7/entire_text/