Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets

Stafford, David

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9781572708570: Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets

ISBN 10: 1572708573 ISBN 13: 9781572708570

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America, 2013

An intriguing look behind the congenial fa�ade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, this work reveals how each leader jealously guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests. David Staffords masterly study shows that at the heart of their complicated relationshipwhich was always dynamicwas an extraordinary fascination with clandestine operations. On this foundation, Roosevelt and Churchill constructed a fighting alliance unlike any other in history.

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About the Author:

David Stafford is an expert in intelligence and espionage operations and the author of numerous books. A former diplomat, he is currently projects director at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Leverhulme Emeritus Professor in the University's School of History, Classics, and Archaeology.

Richard McGonagle is an experienced film, television, and voice-over actor. He has appeared in such films as Rules of Engagement and such television shows as The Practice and JAG.

From AudioFile:

The much vaunted cooperation between Great Britain and the United States during WWII has long been due for reassessment, and this study of the intelligence services of both countries may signal its start. Stafford's close examination suggests as much competition as cooperation, for the ambitions of both leaders--Roosevelt and Churchill--and their national interests, beyond winning the war, were largely incompatible. In a forceful narration Richard McGonagle produces near lifelike imitations of the two men--the urbane, upper-Hudson Roosevelt and the gravelly, sardonic Churchill--that at times brim over with their delight in each other and their work. Underneath, however, boils a tension that always threatens to break out, as the two try to balance the competing demands of their intelligence services against common strategic interests. In a voice familiar to those of us who cut our teeth on TV documentaries like "Victory at Sea," McGonagle recreates those tense moments between Allies whose secret interests were worlds apart, yet who nonetheless assembled the most effective spy network in the history of the world. P.E.F. � AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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