CHURCHILL AND SECRET SERVICE
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76064
English Summary/英文概要： Uniquely among modern British statesmen, Churchill believed passionately in the value of secret intelligence both in peace and war. Shaped by his experiences as a war correspondent and soldier, he helped ensure the passing of the Official Secrets Act of 1911, and was the first Home Secretary to authorise general warrants for the secret interception of mail. As wartime Prime Minister he built a centralised intelligence community, created the Special Operations Executive to work behind enemy lines, and with Roosevelt built the transatlantic intelligence alliance that endures to this day. Based on wide-ranging sources, many never explored or only recently released, the book offers an intriguing insight into both modern intelligence and the mind and character of Churchill himself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为最为出色的一位现代英国政治家，由于自己曾在一战时期的从战经历，因此丘吉尔深深地坚信秘密情报在和平和战争时期同样具有的价值意义。他在1911年促成和确保了政府保密法的通过,也是第一个批准空白搜查令秘密拦截邮件的英国内政大臣。作为战时首相,他建立了一个中央情报部门,创建了一支在敌后开展工作的特别行动执行组,与罗斯福联手缔造了延续至今的跨大西洋情报联盟。基于广泛的资料,那些从未被发现过的，或最近才发布的许多信息来源,本书对现代情报战和丘吉尔本人的思想和性格提出了一个全新有趣的见解。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：’a fascinating narrative and a scholarly exegesis’ -- SUNDAY TIMES
About the Author/作者介绍： 英国爱丁堡大学历史教授大卫•斯塔福德是一位生于伯明翰的作家，播音员和音乐爱好者。大卫从上世纪70年代开始，在自家的社区剧场小试牛刀。80年代早期，他和阿列克谢•塞利联手合作，开创了“首都广播”和两部电影电视系列（‘渴望和你杀了我兄弟？），还发表了一部小说《伟大的公车环球之旅》，这期间他们还合作录制了许多歌曲，包括《马腾医生的靴子》。同时他还担任了英国第四台消费频道的主持人，并为许多艺术节目和纪录片献声，其中就包括英国第四台的‘The Media Show’和当时BBC2台热播的晚间秀。他的电视剧作品包括和诗人本杰明•泽菲耐尔合作的（BBC2台的）《恐惧诗社》，《西方世界里我和凯瑟琳的小灰屋》。10年来，他为《星期日卫报》定期撰写周记专栏。到90年代，他在BBC2台的追踪节目，英国广播4台的《横冲直撞》担任主持，还曾是该台的文学模仿游戏Booked的定期参赛者。大卫经常和BBC资深DJ约翰•皮尔的《事实真相》节目的联合主持人。自皮尔去世后，他成为第一主持人之一，之后独挑大梁。在过去的五年时间里，他曾在伦敦大学，伯克贝克大学教授剧本写作课程。
David Stafford is an historian and former diplomat who has written extensively on espionage, intelligence, Churchill, and the Second World War. The former Project Director at the Centre for The Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh, he is now an Honorary Fellow of the University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, where he and his wife now live. He has frequently acted as a TV and radio consultant, has written radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC, and his latest book, Ten Days to D-Day, formed the basis for a Channel Four two-part Docudrama. He is currently acting as Historical Consultant on a TV documentary being made by ORTV in London on the legendary CIA-SIS Berlin Cold War spy tunnel based on his book, Spies Beneath Berlin. He is a regular book reviewer, appearing in The Times (London), BBC History Magazine, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, the Times Herald Tribune (Paris), and Saturday Night and the Globe and Mail (Toronto). David Stafford was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has degrees from Cambridge University and the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science), and when he is not writing books is an avid reader of fiction and a devotee of the operas of Mozart. In April 2005 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to write the official history of SOE in Italy ( Part Two, 1943-1945) which was published by the Bodley Head in March 2011.
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