Churchill's Secret War (eBook)

Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey 1942-44

Robin Denniston (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
228 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-7955-9 (ISBN)

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The key part played by Winston Churchill in shaping the course of the Second World War is still of great interest to historians worldwide. In the course of his research, Robin Denniston has uncovered previously unknown files of diplomatic intercepts which show that Churchill's role in British foreign policy and war planning was far more signficant than has hitherto been supposed. Although neither a commander-in-chief nor a head of state, he personally exerted considerable influence on British foreign policy to force Turkey into the Second World War on the side of the Allies. This ground-breaking book explores Churchill's use of secret signals intelligence before and during the Second World War and also sheds fresh light on Britain's relations with Turkey - a subject which has not received the attention it deserves. The book examines a little-known plan to open a second front in the Balkans, from Turkey across the eastern Mediterranean, designed to hasten D-Day in the west, and reveals new information on the 1943 Cicero spy scandal - the biggest Foreign Office security lapse until the Burgess and Maclean affair some twenty years later.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: allies • British foreign policy • cicero spy scandal • diplomatic decrypts the foreign office and turkey 1942-44 • diplomatic decrypts the foreign office and turkey 1942-44, winston churchill, intercepts, war planning, british foreign policy, turkey, allies, secret signals intelligence, second world war, world war two, world war 2, world war ii, ww2, wwii, the balkans, cicero spy scandal, foreign office • Foreign Office • intercepts • Second World War • secret signals intelligence • The Balkans • Turkey • war planning • Winston Churchill • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-7955-0 / 0750979550
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-7955-9 / 9780750979559