Books by David Stafford and Complete Book Reviews
David Stafford, Author . Overlook $24.95 (222p) ISBN 978-1-58567-361-2
A leading writer on military intelligence and project director at the Center for Second World War Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Stafford (Churchill and Secret Service) details the political backdrop and events surrounding Operation...
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David Stafford, Author . Little, Brown $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-60561-8
Stafford (Spies Beneath Berlin
) does an excellent job of re-creating the tensions and anticipations of those who were preparing to fight on D-Day, and the stakes involved for (and often desperate movements of) nonmilitary people on the ground in...
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David Stafford, Author Overlook Press $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-87951-850-9
In this revealing study, British historian Stafford draws on recently released British secret service archives and Churchill's own papers to lay bare his long-time involvement in covert actions and intelligence gathering. As a soldier in Afghanistan
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David Stafford, Author Overlook Press $29.95 (254p) ISBN 978-1-58567-168-7
With James Bondesque devices, disguise and sabotage, secret agents became Britain's weapon against Germany after Britain's troops were forced off the continent. In Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive's Covert War...
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David Stafford, Author Overlook Press $35 (359p) ISBN 978-1-58567-068-0
Stafford (Churchill and Secret Service, etc.) wants nothing to do with the popular view of the great wartime partnership between Churchill and FDR. Not content with the sentimentalized portrait of a warm friendship based on shared pedigrees and...
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David Stafford, Author Dodd Mead $0 (327p) ISBN 978-0-396-09096-0
Located in Canada not far from Toronto, Special Training School 103 (""Camp X'') was established by the British in 1941 primarily to teach American civilian recruits the basic elements of sabotage and counterintelligence. By the time it closed down...
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