FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of North Africa by Vaughan, Hal

FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of North Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592289165)

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FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of North Africa by Vaughan, Hal

FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of North Africa

$24.95
FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of North Africa by Vaughan, Hal

FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved The Way For The Invasion Of North Africa

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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Nineteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR sent twelve "vice
consuls" to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia on a secret mission. Their objective? To prepare the groundwork for what eventually became Operation TORCH, the Allied invasion of North Africa that repelled the Nazis and also enabled the liberation of Italy. This spy network included an ex-Cartier jewel salesman and wine merchant, a madcap Harvard anthropologist, a Parisian playboy who ran with Hemingway, ex-French Foreign Legionnaires and Paris bankers, and a WWI hero.

Based on recently declassified foreign records, as well as the memoirs of Ridgeway Brewster Knight (one of the twelve "apostles"), this fast-paced historical account gives the first behind-the-scenes look at FDR's top-secret plan. .

Author: Hal Vaughan
ISBN-10: 1592289169
ISBN-13: 9781592289165
Publisher: Lyons Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.32w x 1.23d
By Hal Vaughan
By Hal Vaughan
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Hal Vaughan has served as a U.S. Ferign Service offer and journalist on assignments in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. His first book was Dotor to the Renaissance: The Heroic True Story of an American Surgeon and His Family in Occupied Paris (Brassey's 2004).

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