A Covert Affair - Julia child and Pauld Child in the OSS (author of tuxedo park, irregulars) Ciltli büyük boy şömizli baskı
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Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Childs experiences as members of the Office of StrategDevamını oku
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Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Childs experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China.
The eager, inexperienced 6 foot 2 inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and thirty years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSSs ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia. Her first post took her to the mountaintop idyll of Kandy, the headquarters of Admira
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