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Angelena

Real spies in WWII

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 10 août 2013

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Listened to this in the car. It's fascinating. It's another fascinating true story from Jennet Conant. Conant is known for similar books that tell the little-known stories of important developments during WWII. She has chronicled the Manhattan Project, from idea to the bombing of Hiroshima in Tuxedo Park and 109 East Palace as well as the story of Julia and Paul Child's work for the OSS during the war.

Dahl (author of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate, inter alia) was an RAF pilot in the early part of WWII. He was badly injured in a plane crash and could no longer fly. He went to work as the air attache at the British Embassy in Washington, but he was really sent there to help convince America to join the war as a member of the British Security Coordination.

His overseers at the Embassy did not always know what or why he was doing something for the BSC. They were none too happy with this situation and periodically tried to have Dahl reassigned back to England. The same was not true for the social and political elites in DC. The work required him to work his way into the elite social scene in DC which meant that he was rubbing elbows with, and building relationships with, many of the most important people in the country. In fact, he became friends with the Roosevelts, the Vice President, numerous Congressmen, wealthy businessmen who supported election campaigns, and the doyennes who gave the parties that one just couldn't say no to. He had access to the people that mattered, and he knew how to constructively use that access to influence American policy toward Britain and the war.

Dahl also began his career as a writer at this time. He wrote essays about his war time experiences for magazines and began writing children's story books. His book, The Gremlins, attracted the attention of Walt Disney who wanted to make a movie of the book. That didn't work out, but Dahl went on to write for the movies as well. This led him to some of Hollywood's most influential actors, writers, producers and studio heads.

Conant does a great job, not just telling us the facts of the situation, but of turning real people into fascinating .characters

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Fred Houpt

What an amazing story

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 27 juillet 2022

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I am a big fan of this author and so I had a sense that this would be well researched and the narrative would be captivating. I wasn't disappointed. I knew very little about the secret side of Roald Dahl and his buddies working for British Intelligence inside the USA during the war. I highly recommend this book. You will learn much and your perspective on how Churchill and "C" (head of MI5) managed to push their agenda along even though its client was F.D.R.

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SimpleKnight

Great stories about international spying!

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 28 décembre 2022

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book, can't confirm how true any of it is, but it makes for fascinating reading.

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Amazon Customer Kathy Kingsbury Roessler

was like during WWII

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 2 mars 2016

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If you fancy yourself as a student of WWII you must read this book. It is hard to imagine what Washington D.C. was like during WWII. You can guess what it must have been like and read all kinds of books about government contracts and who the major players were. Read this book and you'll have met the decision makers in a human way that you've probably not seen anywhere else. Its the D.C. we all have suspected but never seen from the inside. The real persons the author reveals to us in her word paintings are so much more than simply a recitation of facts. Their motivations and personalities come alive. I had some idea previously that the Brits had maneuvered the U.S. into being their allies. We know that Roosevelt and Churchill were instrumental in that effort. Previously unknown to me, was how involved British Intelligence was in manipulating American attitudes towards helping the Brits. I had no idea that Roald Dahl was part of British Intelligence and an ace pilot. The author leads us into Dahl's initial foray into writing. A great and fascinating read. I'm surprised no one has made a movie from the book of Dahl's exploits during WWII. The author has practically written the script.

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richard orton

Top notch service

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 13 novembre 2022

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Love this book

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JessMoore

One of the best 10 books I've read in the past couple years

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 17 janvier 2015

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A fascinating read. A book that _could_ have been dull, but most definitely isn't. Not only does it reveal Dahl in a role I assume most people never knew about, it describes the inner machinations of Washington DC during WWII in ways that amaze and disgust.
I'm being careful not to let the fact that I knew the late Antoinette Haskell (and have one of her paintings on my wall) influence my opinion when I say this is one of the 10 best books I've read in the past couple years. Antoinette was but one of many sources the author interviewed.
This is a book I will read again in a year or so.

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Gregory E.

An amazing look into history.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 28 mai 2020

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Just sensational what went on on the spy front during the war.
Just a great read from front to back.

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Neil Russell

Mr. Dahl In Full

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 11 mai 2014

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As a more than casual reader about WWII, I came to "The Irregulars" skeptical that the author could offer insights to this particular chapter not ably--and amply--explored by others. I apologize to Ms. Conant... profusely. Hers is a remarkable piece, which is as much journalism as literature. That is not to diminish her writing; it is exceptional and alive. But when one is able to add so many previously cloaked events, conversations and consequential flesh to the most important drama of the twentieth century, it is as much reporting as history. Unreserved applause.

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Dr. Paul Dunn

A fascinating view of Dahl's wartime activities.

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 26 août 2013

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Roald Dahl's early life and his early wartime experience as a fighter pilot are entertainingly described in his autobiographical works ("Boy", "Going Solo"). His later life is known through his fame as a writer of children's stories and his marriage to actress patricia Neal and the trauma of her stroke and recovery. I always wondered what he did during the war after his injuries terminated his flying career. This book amply covers that period, describing his astonishing activities in the US.

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Shand Nichols

This is an amazing book. It made me realize how little I ...

Commenté aux États-Unis 🇺🇸 le 30 octobre 2017

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This is an amazing book. It made me realize how little I know about what goes on behind the scenes of Washington. While the parties were going on in Washington, in Texas we were adding yellow food coloring to make margarine look like butter, and trying to find shoes that

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