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100	1		_aPersico, Joseph E. _d(, 1930-2014)
245	1	0	_aRoosevelt's secret war _b: World War II Espionage _c/ Joseph E. Persico
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c2001.
300			_a564p. _b: ills. _c; 24 cm.
500			_aLocated in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [453]-463) and index.
505	0		_aFDR and World War II espionage
520			_aDespite all that has already been written on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. Roosevelt's Secret Waris crowded with remarkable revelations: -FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor -A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office -Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia -Roosevelt and Churchill concealed a disaster costing hundreds of British soldiers' lives in order to protect Ultra, the British codebreaking secret -An unwitting Japanese diplomat provided the President with a direct pipeline into Hitler's councils Roosevelt's Secret Waralso describes how much FDR had been told--before the Holocaust--about the coming fate of Europe's Jews. And Persico also provides a definitive answer to the perennial question Did FDR know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor? By temperament and character, no American president was better suited for secret warfare than FDR. He manipulated, compartmentalized, dissembled, and misled, demonstrating a spymaster's talent for intrigue. He once remarked, "I never let my right hand know what my left hand does." Not only did Roosevelt create America's first central intelligence agency, the OSS, under "Wild Bill" Donovan, but he ran spy rings directly from the Oval Office, enlisting well-placed socialite friends. FDR was also spiedagainst.Roosevelt's Secret Warpresents evidence that the Soviet Union had a source inside the Roosevelt White House; that British agents fed FDR total fabrications to draw the United States into war; and that Roosevelt, by yielding to Churchill's demand that British scientists be allowed to work on the Manhattan Project, enabled the secrets of the bomb to be stolen. And these are only a few of the scores of revelations in this constantly surprising story of Roosevelt's hidden role in World War II.
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _x- Secret Service - United States
650		4	_aRoosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945
650		4	_aIntelligence service _z-United States _x-History _y-20th century
830		0	_aSan Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author
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