The Tizard Mission : the top-secret operation that changed the course of World War II / Stephen Phelps.

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-- p...

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Main Author: Phelps, Stephen
Language:English
Published: Yardley, Pa. : Westholme, [2010], ©2010.
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Physical Description:xiii, 323 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a "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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