Visiting London in 1918 as American Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt met the young Winston Churchill for the first time. Roosevelt's reported comments on Churchill did not bode well for the future. According to Roosevelt, "He acted like a stinker." However, over 20 years later, Roosevelt and Churchill were to find themselves forging one of the most crucial alliances in military and political history in the face of the Axis forces of Nazi Germany and Japan. The story of their remarkable political alliance and personal friendship is vividly recounted in David Stafford's Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets, which charts the intense relationship between the two men, from Churchill's elevation to Prime Minister in 1940 to Roosevelt's death in April 1945. The story of the development of the abiding "Special Relationship" established between the US and the UK by the two men has often been told, but Stafford intelligently reveals the personal dimensions of both men--Roosevelt the democratic, modernising anti- colonialist, Churchill the conservative, traditional imperialist--insisting that they both "knew the political value of the personal touch." In the process he carefully paints a picture of a relationship which ultimately defeated Hitler: "Seventeen hundred messages passed between them, and in nine meetings and several conferences they had spent a hundred and twenty days of close personal contact together." In the process Stafford revisits the manoeuvrings prior to Pearl Harbour which brought the US into the war, as well as fascinating new information on both men's obsession with clandestine military intelligence, and the various forms of political and diplomatic skullduggery which they shared in their ultimate pursuit of a new world order. Jerry Brotton

Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets

DAVID STAFFORD

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown & Co

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation

History

Europe

ABACUS +

Yasser Arafat (Abacus Bks.)

Little Brown Pod

Camp X : Special Operations Executive and the American Connection

Harmondsworth : Viking

This is a history of the spy novel as a literary, social and political history. It discusses different authors including Buchan, Ambler, Greene, and le Carre and the questions concerning the relationship of the genre to politics in the 20th century. There are sidelights on the authors themselves and their own relationship with the intelligence services.

The silent game: The real world of imaginary spies

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

VIKING

Spies Beneath Berlin

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Spies beneath Berlin

Churchill and Secret Service

Overlook Press

It was the day that changed the course of a war. Meticulously planned, brilliantly executed, the landings of June 6, 1944 constitute the largest seaborne assault ever attempted. With the pace of a thriller, acclaimed historian David Stafford describes the countdown to the Normandy landings from the perspectives of the men in power and those of the ordinary people whose courage and dedication made it all possible.

Ten Days To D-Day: Citizens and Soldiers on the Eve of the Invasion

Military

Thorndike Press

The Silent Game

Key Porter Books

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