Churchill's Secret War
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Churchill's Secret War

Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey 1942-44

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Churchill's Secret War

Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey 1942-44

About this book

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.

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Information

Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780752452364
eBook ISBN
9780750979559
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Plates
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Why Turkey?
  10. 2 Churchill’s Diplomatic Intercepts
  11. 3 Before the Deluge: 1940–41
  12. 4 Turkish Neutrality: Liability or Asset?
  13. 5 Churchill’s Turkey Hand 1942
  14. 6 Adana and After
  15. 7 Churchill’s ‘Island Prizes Lost’ Revisited
  16. 8 Cicero, Dulles and Philby: 1943–44
  17. 9 Conclusions
  18. Appendices
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Picture Section