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Our Man in New York - The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War (Hardcover)
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Our Man in New York - The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War (Hardcover)
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'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 'This is excellent, surprising
and timely. Henry is a proper talent.' - DAN SNOW 'This is a
fascinating and gripping book, and deserves to be a big hit on both
sides of the Atlantic.' - JOHN O'FARRELL 'In Hemming's sure hands,
America's uncertain progress towards direct engagement in the
second world war becomes riveting history.' - SPECTATOR 'A
galloping story that Henry Hemming tells with clarity and aplomb.'
- NEW STATESMAN 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 British-led plot
to drag the US into the conflict. They feared that the British were
somehow flooding the American media with 'fake news', infiltrating
pressure groups, rigging opinion polls and meddling in US politics.
These claims were shocking and wild: they were also true. That
truth is revealed here for the first time by bestselling author
Henry Hemming, using hitherto private and classified documents,
including the diaries of his own grandparents, who were briefly
part of Stephenson's extraordinary influence campaign that was
later described in the Washington Post as 'arguably the most
effective in history'. Stephenson - who saved the life of Hemming's
father - was a flawed maverick, full of contradictions, but one
whose work changed the course of the war, and whose story can now
be told in full.
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