Churchill And Secret Service - Brossura

Stafford, Professor David

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ISBN 10: 0349112797 ISBN 13: 9780349112794

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2000

Riassunto

Winston Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence - in times of war, of course, but also in times of peace. As a young correspondent and soldier in Cuba and South Africa, he experienced its worth first hand. As wartime Prime Minister, he built a centralised intelligence community, responded daily to raw 'Ultra' reports, created the Special Operations Executive to work behind enemy lines and with Roosevelt built the intelligence alliance that endures to this day.
With absorbing detail about the secret world of agents and double agents rivalling le Carre, this groundbreaking work traces Churchill's connections from his days as a member of the Cabinet that established the Secret Service to the war years, when his extensive network provided him with superior information. Both a riveting account of the origins and inner workings of modern intelligence agencies and a study of Churchill and his role in their development, CHURCHILL AND SECRET SERVICE is a major contribution to the study of modern and military history and a crucial missing key to understanding Churchill himself.

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Recensione:

A first-rate and, what is more remarkable, an original contribution to Churchilliana (KIRKUS REVIEWS)

an excellent and long overdue book (LITERARY REVIEW)

a startlingly good book (SPECTATOR)

a fascinating narrative and a scholarly exegesis (SUNDAY TIMES)

Descrizione del libro:

* Winston Churchill omitted almost every reference to secret intelligence from his war memoirs. David Stafford fills that gap.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0349112797
• ISBN 13: 9780349112794
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480