Triumph in adversity
The book has 1,200 pages, including 40 pages of colour plates. The fruit of 27 years' original research in British and foreign archives, it chronicles many interesting facts. These include the quantities of alcohol imbibed at
Chequers, how Mountbatten deceived Churchill over the
catastrophe of Dieppe, how the Americans deceived the
British over the losses at Pearl Harbor and why Washington
refused to show the British their dealings with Japan in the
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