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To keep the British Isles afloat : FDR's men in Churchill's London, 1941
- Title
- To keep the British Isles afloat : FDR's men in Churchill's London, 1941 / Thomas Parrish.
- Author
- Parrish, Thomas (Thomas D.)
- Publication
- [New York] : Smithsonian Books/Collins, [2009], ©2009.
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- Description
- x, 324 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Aussenpolitik
- Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States
- Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
- United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Hopkins, Harry L (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946
- Grossbritannien
- World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-311) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : Crisis, 1940 -- Money flies -- Friendship -- "Brilliance and glitter" -- Dark autumn -- Terror in the air -- The case of solidarity -- "Send for Harry!" -- Decidedly unneutral acts -- The political calculating machine -- "Reposing special faith and confidence" -- "A smiling gentleman" -- "The perfection of human society" -- "Whither thou goest" -- "The all-seeing eye" -- "A new Magna Carta" -- "By temperament, training and experience" -- Linking up -- "In a nightmare" -- At the Dorchester -- On his majesty's service -- The colossus factor.
- ISBN
- 9780061357930 (acid-free paper)
- 0061357936 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2008046206
- OCLC
- ocn262886292
- 262886292
- SCSB-5471086
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries