The Woman Who Censored Churchill - Brossura

Ive, Ruth

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ISBN 10: 0752455834 ISBN 13: 9780752455839

Casa editrice: The History Press Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

During the Second World War, the only way Winston Churchill and his American counterpart Franklin D. Roosevelt could communicate was via a top secret transatlantic telephone link. All other Atlantic telephone cables had been disconnected to prevent the Germans intercepting information.

Ruth Ive, then a young stenographer working in the Ministry of Information, had the job of censoring the line, and she spent the rest of the war listening in to the conversations across the Atlantic, ready to cut the line if anything was said that might compromise security. Ruth was sworn to secrecy about her work, and at the end of the war all documentation proving the existence of the telephone line was destroyed. It was not until 1995, when Churchill's private files were finally declassified, that Ruth was able to research her story. Now, for the first time, one of the Second World War's key workers describes the details of her incredible story, and the private conversations of two of the war's most important players can be revealed.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The History Press Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0752455834
• ISBN 13: 9780752455839
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile