Richly detailed and carefully researched, Conants masterful narrative is based on never-before-seen wartime letters, diaries, and interviews. Kobo eBook (September 8th, 2008): $14. Better than any spy fiction, The Irregulars is a fascinating, lively account of deceit, double dealing, and moral ambiguityall in the name of victory.History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II.

This is a terrific tale - and it's all true, proving anew that history trumps even the most vivid fiction.' - Jon Meacham, author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship Product Details

By recovering Roald Dahl, the man at the center of seemingly everything, and placing him and his shadowy work in historical context, Conant has shed fresh light on the complexities and contradictions of the 'special relationship' between Roosevelt and Churchill and their nations. 'With grace and insight and an unerring eye for the telling human detail, Jennet Conant has given us an entertaining and enlightening account of a long-forgotten but essential chapter of the Second World War: the British espionage operations based in Washington during those epic days. All the complexities of friends spying on friends, yet as good a weekend companion as you'll find this year.' - Alan Furst, author of The Spies of Warsaw Immensely intelligent and entertaining, with a narrative so strongly fashioned it reads, and compels, like the best fiction. 'Jennet Conant's new book is pure pleasure. Through the eyes of a young Santa Fe widow who was one of Oppenheimer's first recruits, we see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project to make a supreme effort and achieve the unthinkable.'A fascinating glimpse of the intrigue and spying inside the British-American alliance in wartime Washington.' - Ben Bradlee They lied to friends and family about where they were going and what they were doing, and then disappeared into the desert. THE IRREGULARS by Jennet Conant a Non-Fiction Biography book ISBN-0743294580 ISBN13-9780743294584 with cover, excerpt, author notes, review link, and availability. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years sequestered in this top-secret military facility. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. Robert Oppenheimer and the world's best scientists to produce the atomic bomb and win World War II. From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three-thousand people who lived together in near confinement for twenty-seven intense months under J.

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