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The Tizard Mission : the top-secret operation that changed the course of World War II
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The Tizard Mission : the top-secret operation that changed the course of World War II / Stephen Phelps.
ISBN
9781594161162 :
159416116X
Published
Yardley, Pa. : Westholme, c2010.
Physical Description
xiii, 323 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Summary
In August 1940, a German invasion of Britain looked inevitable. Churchill gambled on an unorthodox plan: a team would travel under cover to the United States and give the still-neutral Americans the best of Britain's secrets, in hopes that the US would provide financial and manufacturing support-- perhaps even entry into the war.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 29, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311) and index.
Contents
"The bombers will always get through"
America's first line of defense
The Tizard Committee
Bawdsley Manor
The "special relationship"
Prime Minister Churchill
The common cause
A simple stroke of genius
Three thousand miles from war
The mission takes shape
First contact
The Duchess of Richmond
Unparalleled power
An American mandate
Radiation laboratory
A two-ocean war
Secret weapons
The mission's legacy
Appendix. Minutes of the first meeting of the British Technical Mission to the USA.
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