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Product Description: This book explores the theoretical basis of an individual’s ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings. It identifies a class of interpretive moral wrongs and shows how an individual’s obligations in respect of these wrongs can be understood.

'This volume describes how the OSS aided the Communist-led Partisans in an attempt to weaken the Nazi cause in Albania and neighboring Italy. The book presents a look at the small core of hardened men who comprised these highly specialized teams. Interviews with still-living participants and onsite research make this book a unique resource'--Provided by publisher.

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