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| Author | : Gill Bennett |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 862 |
| Release | : 2006-10-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113416033X |
The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to General Haig during the First World War, Morton worked for the Secret Intelligence Service from 1919-1934, and the fortunes of SIS in the interwar years are described here in unprecedented detail. As Director of the Industrial Intelligence Centre in the 1930s, Morton’s warnings of Germany’s military and industrial preparations for war were widely read in Whitehall, though they failed to accelerate British rearmament as much as Morton - and Churchill - considered imperative. Morton had met Churchill on the Western Front in 1916 and supported him throughout the ‘wilderness years’, moving to Downing Street as the Prime Minister’s Intelligence adviser in May 1940. There he remained in a liaison role, with the Intelligence Agencies and with Allied resistance authorities, until the end of the war, when he became a ‘troubleshooter’ for the Treasury in a series of tricky international assignments. Throughout Morton’s career, myth, rumour and deliberate obfuscation have created a misleading picture of his role and influence. This book shines a light into many hitherto shadowy corners of British history in the first half of the twentieth century. This book will be of great interest to scholars and informed lay readers with an interest in the Second World War, intelligence studies and the life of Winston Churchill.
| Author | : Gill Bennett |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2006-10-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1134160348 |
Based on full access to official records, this text exposes the mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War.
| Author | : Alan Hlad |
| Publisher | : A John Scognamiglio Book |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2021-04-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1496728416 |
A riveting story of World War II and the courage of one young woman as she is drafted into Churchill’s overseas spy network, aiding the French Resistance behind enemy lines and working to liberate Nazi-occupied Paris… London, 1941: In a cramped bunker in Winston Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms, underneath Westminster’s Treasury building, civilian women huddle at desks, typing up confidential documents and reports. Since her parents were killed in a bombing raid, Rose Teasdale has spent more hours than usual in Room 60, working double shifts, growing accustomed to the burnt scent of the Prime Minister’s cigars permeating the stale air. Winning the war is the only thing that matters, and she will gladly do her part. And when Rose’s fluency in French comes to the attention of Churchill himself, it brings a rare yet dangerous opportunity. Rose is recruited for the Special Operations Executive, a secret British organization that conducts espionage in Nazi-occupied Europe. After weeks of grueling training, Rose parachutes into France with a new codename: Dragonfly. Posing as a cosmetics saleswoman in Paris, she ferries messages to and from the Resistance, knowing that the slightest misstep means capture or death. Soon Rose is assigned to a new mission with Lazare Aron, a French Resistance fighter who has watched his beloved Paris become a shell of itself, with desolate streets and buildings draped in Swastikas. Since his parents were sent to a German work camp, Lazare has dedicated himself to the cause with the same fervor as Rose. Yet Rose’s very loyalty brings risks as she undertakes a high-stakes prison raid, and discovers how much she may have to sacrifice to justify Churchill’s faith in her . . . "A rousing historical novel." - The Akron Beacon Journal, Best Books of the Year for Churchill's Secret Messenger
| Author | : Giles Milton |
| Publisher | : Picador |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2017-02-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1250119049 |
Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men—along with three others—formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.
| Author | : Max Ciampoli |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2010-12-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101445599 |
Based upon Max Hardonniere's own experience as a covert operative during World War II, this is the story of a young man whose acquaintance with Prime Minister Winston Churchill would lead to him being recruited and trained as a spy who would fight his own war from behind enemy lines.
| Author | : E. Keith Binnersley |
| Publisher | : Bookbaby |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2021-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781098369644 |
The reader does not need a scientific background to follow the gist of the story. The book describes how Winston Churchill was able to gain access to enough fissionable uranium to make several atomic bombs before the USA's Manhattan Program began and how eventually he gained control of the USA's atomic bomb. The inspiration for this book was the recent discovery by the author that by November 1943 a chemical company in England, known at that time as Imperial Chemical Industries, had manufactured 2965 lbs. of a metal they referred to as massive metal. Extensive searches of the literature and the UK Archives at Kew, London established that massive metal was the uranium isotope 235U, the active ingredient in the atomic bomb that the USA dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945. All contemporary narratives of World War 2 make no mention of this. It was truly Churchill's Greatest Secret. This book attempts to explain how this came about. The events of World War 2 are now viewed by most people as though they are in a far distant rear view mirror. It is surprising that new information is still being discovered that shines new light on how the USA and the UK co-operated in their joint programs aimed at beating Hitler and the Japanese to the atomic bomb. New facts are revealed. As an example the author shows that when French scientists published a concept for an atomic bomb Hitler was forced to bring forward his plans for Liebestraume.......The German Dream and precipitate World War 2 sooner than he wanted. As a second example the author, connecting the dots again, shows that FDR's decision to provoke Japan was the result of his fear that Japan could build an atomic bomb. A list of patent applications that gave the British and French a dominant post war patent position are published for the first time.
| Author | : Louis C. Kilzer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
They invited the Deputy Fuhrer of Germany, Rudolf Hess, to attend a peace conference at which Hitler would negotiate the coming invasion of the Soviet Union with the British "Peace Party.".
| Author | : Warren Adler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-01-24 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781953959010 |
| Author | : Richard M. Langworth |
| Publisher | : Potomac Books |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Aimed at students, scholars, collectors and dealers, this guide to Winston Churchill's books is designed as a reference when hunting for, or reading, Winston Churchill's books. Its purpose is to inform people of what they are holding in their hands and how to tell a first edition from a reprint.
| Author | : Jill Churchill |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) |
| ISBN | : 9780739412022 |
