Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War II

DAVID STAFFORD

Little. Brown and Company

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown & Co

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 centralized 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 detail about the secret world of agents and double agents this 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 an account of the origins and inner workings of modern intelligence agencies and a study of Churchill and his role in their development, this volume is a contribution to the study of modern and military history and a key to understanding Churchill himself.

Churchill and secret service

History

Europe

ABACUS +

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

Endgame 1945: Victory, Retribution, Liberation

SECRET AGENT: THE TRUE STORY OF THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE

BBC Books

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

*****Camp X was the first secret-agent training school in North America . . . Located in Ontario, it was so secret that its existence was not even known to the Canada War Cabinet . . . Its agents carried out some of the most dangerous acts of espionage and guerrilla warfare in World War Two; gathered intelligence behind enemy lines in Europe and Asia; tracked down Nazi spies in Canada and the U.S.; fought Nazi espionage to keep Allied shipping lines open from Central and South America . . . Among the players at Camp X were some of the most renowned names of that time; Sir William Stephenson - "A Man Called Intrepid"; FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; OSS Chief "Wild Bill" Donovan; and Ian Fleming, creator of 007, James Bond. From secret files in Washington, London and Ottawa, and eye-witness accounts, comes the incredible story of the Allies' secret army.*****

Camp X - The Incredible and True Story of Canada's School for Secret Agents 1941 - 1945

General Publishing Company, Li

Churchill and Secret Service

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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