Our Man in New York
The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 352
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781787474840
- Utgivelsesår: 2020
- Bidragsyter: Hemming, Henry
"A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espionage finally has its expert chronicler."
- WILLIAM BOYD
''Gripping and intoxicating, it unfolds like the best screenplay.''
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE
The gripping story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring the US into the Second World War.
When William Stephenson - "our man in New York" - arrived in the United States towards the end of June 1940 with instructions from the head of MI6 to ''organise'' American public opinion, Britain was on the verge of defeat. Surveys showed that just 14% of the US population wanted to go to war against Nazi Germany. But soon that began to change...
Those campaigning against America''s entry into the war, such as legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh, talked of a Br