The 2007 film Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) told the story of Nazi Germany's counterfeiting scheme in which they forced over a hundred Jewish master artists, engravers, printers, and specialists in security papers and inks to forge American and British money in order to undermine those countries' ability to prosecute the war. This was one of the largest of such operations, but as journalist Cooley details in this volume, it was hardly the first. He describes a number of such schemes through world history and describes their consequences, including Union efforts to spread phony Confederate notes during the American Civil War, British covert operations involving secretly forged German imperial reichsmarks during World War I, the forgery scheme in the 1920s that helped destroy the Portuguese economy, Soviet military intelligence forgeries of American dollars, US Army Psychological Warfare money forgery operations in their wars in Vietnam and Korea, and the aforementioned Nazi scheme. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)