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- The invisible spy : Churchill's Rockefeller Center spy ring and America's first secret agent of World War II / by Maier, Thomas,1956-author.;
As a tough but smart Italian American kid, Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in the old Brooklyn Dodgers NFL franchise before becoming a City Hall lawyer and "Brain Trust'' aide to President Roosevelt. He was on the payroll of national radio columnist Walter Winchell and mingled with the famous and powerful. But his status as a spy remained a secret, hiding in plain sight. During this time, Cuneo began a love affair with one of Churchill's agents at Rockefeller Center, Margaret Watson, a beautiful Canadian woman with a photographic memory ideal for spycraft. In one nighttime attack, Watson was nearly smothered to death by a Nazi assassin inside her women's dormitory near Rockfeller Center. Cuneo's transformation from a gridiron athlete into a high-stakes intelligence go-between and political influencer is one of the great untold stories of American espionage. He has remained "invisible" in the public eye, until now, with this unveiled look into his life. Thomas Maier weaves Cuneo's remarkable personal story with the vivid and insightful portraits of many top figures in his world. Full of action and fascinating characters, this untold history shows how the British launched a far-ranging covert campaign against Nazi conspirators hidden in America, a spy war unbeknown to many.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965; Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972; Great Britain. MI6; United States. Office of Strategic Services; Espionage, American; Intelligence officers; Spies; Undercover operations; World War, 1939-1945;
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- The fight for history : 75 years of forgetting, remembering, and remaking Canada's Second World War / by Cook, Tim,author.;
"A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony. The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. But the Second World War's relevance to Canada led to conflict between veterans and others in society--more so than in the previous war--as well as a more rapid diminishment of its significance. By the end of the 20th century, Canada's experiences in the war were largely framed as a series of disasters. Canadians seemed to want to talk only of the defeats at Hong Kong and Dieppe or the racially driven policy of the forced relocation of Japanese-Canadians. In the history books and media, there was little discussion of Canada's crucial role in the Battle of the Atlantic, the success of its armies in Italy and other parts of Europe, or the massive contribution of war materials made on the home front. No other victorious nation underwent this bizarre reframing of the war, remaking victories into defeats. The Fight for History is about the efforts to restore a more balanced portrait of Canada's contribution in the global conflict. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events."-- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Collective memory; Memorialization;
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- Great-Uncle Harry : a tale of war and empire / by Palin, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Some years ago a stash of family records was handed down to Michael Palin, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the same young man as a teenager looking uncomfortable at family gatherings. This, Michael learned, was his Great-Uncle Harry, born in 1884, died in 1916. He had previously had no idea that he had a Great-Uncle Harry, much less that his life was cut short at the age of 32 when he was killed in the Battle of the Somme. The discovery both shocked him and made him want to know much more. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the mud of northern France. And as he did so, a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him. Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir, this is Michael Palin at his very finest."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Palin, Harry, 1884-1916.; Soldiers; Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.; World War, 1914-1918;
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- A map of the new normal : how inflation, war, and sanctions will change your world forever / by Rubin, Jeff,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin looks ahead and warns that the inflation that took the world by surprise in 2021 is in fact the front of a perfect storm of war, supply-chain disruption, geopolitical realignment, domestic upheaval, and energy scarcity that will change everything. During the pandemic, the borrowing patterns of the Canadian government inflated a national deficit by a factor of ten in just two years -- and the time has come to pay for it. The ramifications of international COVID-19 spending could potentially last for decades, and inevitably one of the first manifestations of these consequences will be an unhooking of private lenders' interest rates from central banks. That is just the first symptom of a series of cascading upheavals. Supply-chain disruptions have already shown the vulnerability of the globalism model that has fueled growth for the past decades. War has not only shown the fragility of the status quo, but has revealed diplomatic and economic rifts that promise to shift trading patterns, which means access to markets and to resources. At the same time, the precarity of the US dollar underlines the life-or-death importance of those resources, energy in particular. And consolidation of a Eurasian bloc, from Russia to China, and encompassing old enemies like Iran and former US ally Saudi Arabia, hint that the upheaval of Covid was just the beginning. Tracking trade wars and kinetic wars, central banks and run on banks, pipelines blown up and startups knocked down, The New World Order gives us a glimpse of a near future that will look very different from the recent past. It reminds us that our mortgage rates and job security, our grocery bills and investments, are all tied to events set in motion by governments, corporations, and black swans around the world."--
- Subjects: Economic forecasting.; Social prediction.; Twenty-first century;
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- Monopoly X : How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes. by Orbanes, Philip E.;
'Monopoly X' is an amazing true story of WWII that reveals how British and American military intelligence smuggled supplies and escape tools into German P.O.W. camps disguised as Monopoly game sets, enabling imprisoned servicemen to escape.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: HISTORY / Military / Strategy; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General; TRUE CRIME / Espionage;
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- The great escape [videorecording (DVD)] by Sturges, John,1911-1992.; McQueen, Steve,1930-1980; Garner, James.; Attenborough, Richard; Brickhill, Paul;
Director of photography: Daniel L. Fapp ; art director: Fernando Carrere ; film editor: Ferris Webster ; music by Elmer Bernstein.Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn.The true story of 76 allied airmen who plot a massive escape from Stalag 3, a maximum security prison in World War II. They struggle against overwhelming odds to obtain freedom.Not rated.NTSC 1, DVD Dolby digital.
- Subjects: Stalag Luft III; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war; War films; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
- © c1998., MGM/UA Home Video,
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- The war [videorecording (BLURAY)] : a Ken Burns film / by Arkin, Adam.; Botstein, Sarah.; Burns, Ken,1953-; Cannavale, Bobby.; Conway, Kevin.; David, Keith.; Hanks, Tom.; Holtz, Rebecca.; Jackson, Samuel L.; Lucas, Josh.; McCormick, Carolyn.; Novick, Lynn.; Wahlberg, Robert.; Wallach, Eli,1915-; Ward, Geoffrey C.; American Lives II Film Project.; Florentine Films.; PBS Home Video.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.);
Disc 1. Necessary war -- disc 2. When things get tough ; Deadly calling -- disc 3. Pride of our nation -- disc 4. Fubar -- disc 5. Ghost front -- disc 6. World without war.Cinematography, Buddy Squires ; editors, Paul Barnes, Erik Ewers, Tricia Reidy ; original music, Wynton Marsalis.Narrated by Keith David, with Tom Hanks, Josh Lucas, Bobby Cannavale, Samuel L. Jackson, Eli Wallach, Adam Arkin, Kevin Conway, Rebecca Holtz, Carolyn McCormick, Robert Wahlberg.Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.E.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital.
- Subjects: City dwellers; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- © c2012., PBS Home Video ; Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,
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- The remains of Company D : a story of the Great War / by Nelson, James Carl.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Nelson, John, 1892-1993.; United States. Army; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 28th.; Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918.; Cantigny, Battle of, Cantigny, France, 1918.; Soldiers; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
- © 2009., St. Martin's Press,
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- Agents of influence : a British campaign, a Canadian spy, and the secret plot to bring America into World War II / by Hemming, Henry,1979-author.; Hemming, Henry,1979-Our man in New York.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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.
- Subjects: Stephenson, William Samuel, 1896-1989.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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- World War II / by Willmott, H. P.; Cross, Robin.; Messenger, Charles,1941-;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 69) and index.Examines the causes, campaigns, leaders, and the aftermath of the Second World War.
- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945.;
- © c2009., DK Pub.,
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