An intriguing look behind the congenial façade of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, this work reveals how each leader jealously guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests. David Stafford's masterly study shows that at the heart of their complicated relationship-which was always dynamic-was an extraordinary fascination with clandestine operations. On this foundation, Roosevelt and Churchill constructed a fighting alliance unlike any other in history.
"Stafford wants nothing to do with the popular view of the great wartime partnership between Churchill and FDR…Stafford demonstrates that the alliance of these two cunning leaders was the product of need and hard bargaining, not sentiment. He further contends-quite rightly-that the complex relationship between the two was mirrored by the actions of their intelligence operatives…Both FDR and Church
