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Item Details
| Title:
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ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL
MEN OF SECRETS |
| By: |
David Stafford |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0349112827 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780349112824 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
7 December, 2000 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
* Dual biography of two great men who shared the same enemies: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. |
| Synopsis: |
Theirs was a unique relationship. It was based on interlinked national histories, partially shared nationality - Churchill was half-American - similarities in class and education, love for the navy, and a common belief in the superiority of Anglo-Saxon institutions. Above all, it was cemented by shared enemies: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. On these foundations Churchill and Roosevelt constructed a fighting alliance unlike any other in history, with a Combined Chiefs of Staff, Anglo-American war-making boards, and an atomic alliance that delivered victory in 1945. The two men also developed an extraordinary personal relationship, communicating almost daily by telegram, telephone, personal meetings and through intermediaries. Their camaraderie ended abruptly with FDR's death on 12 April 1945, just hours before American and British troops liberated Buchenwald and Belsen. At the heart of this special relationship, hidden by layers of secrecy, was an extraordinary and far-reaching sharing of intelligence. This was the most sensitive touchstone of their mutual trust, and as David Stafford's masterly biography demonstrates, a responsive barometer of suspicion and discord. |
| Illustrations: |
Section: 8, B&W |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Abacus |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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