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Дэвид Стэффорд - все книги по циклам и сериям | Книги по порядку
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Churchill and the Secret Service Дэвид Стэффорд
ISBN: 978-0879518509 Год издания: 1997 Издательство: The Overlook Press Язык: Английский 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…