

Churchill and Secret Service
Author: David Stafford
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 16 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/28/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Author: David Stafford
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Unabridged: 16 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 09/28/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, History
David Stafford is the former project director at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh and is now adjunct professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He is a renowned expert on Churchill, and his previous publications include Churchill and Secret Service, Roosevelt and Churchill, Endgame 1945, and an official history, Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943–1945.
In 1941 Moscow received an urgent warning about Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR. Only five days before the attack, a Soviet agent working inside Luftwaffe headquarters in Berlin reported that the assault could be expected at any moment. "You can tell your 'source' [...] to f*ck......more
"Yet another book about Churchill?" this book remarks in its opening sentence. At least author David Stafford isn't shy about adding to the mountain of Churchill books already out there - and he has a robust answer to his rhetorical question. He aims to provide a view into Churchill's creation, cult......more
Interesting view of how Churchill worked with the secret service both in war and peace time......more
A book with a lot of specifics and details regarding the development of the British secret service from the beginning of WW I through the early 1950's. Winston Churchill was a key player in all of this, so the work follows Churchill from the 1880's into the early 1950's.......more