A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction Series) - Hardcover

Conant, Jennet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410437450 ISBN 13: 9781410437457

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2011

Synopsis

Chronicles the iconic chef's lesser-known contributions as a member of the OSS during World War II and her efforts at the side of her husband to support an agent accused of being a spy, drawing on recently declassified documents to reveal how their wartime experiences shaped their characters, relationships and ambitions. (military history).

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Review

Praise for A Covert Affair

“Jennet Conant’s A Covert Affair is an absolutely top-class work of the true-spy genre; elegantly written, authentic, exceptionally sophisticated, and not at all what you might expect of a book with a picture of Julia Child on the cover. This ain’t about cooking.”

--Alan Furst, author of Spies of the Balkans

"Conant's vivid tapestry of the 1940s skillfully interweaves interviews, oral histories, memoirs, and recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents with unpublished diaries and letters. The adventurous young OSS recruits spring to life throughout this meticulously researched, authoritative history."
--Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Irregulars



“What critics praise most in Jennet Conant’s The Irregulars is the quality that is becoming the author’s signature knack: her ability to show how a seemingly obscure group of characters personifies the mood of a time and place and exercises more influence than one might expect.... Expert writing and research. ”

--Booklist

“What more could you want from a book? Here is a discussion of propaganda and covert actions written with text-book clarity. Salacious gossip about the upper circles of Washington’s political and media community. A writing style that has one racing from page to page, eager to soak in more details. I thump my desk with glee over Jennet Conant’s The Irregulars.... A truly fascinating book.”

--Joseph C. Goulden, The Washington Times

“As was true of her excellent first book, Tuxedo Park, in The Irregulars [Conant] removes the dust of history. ... Entertaining and instructive.”

--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“Exhaustively researched and vividly written.... Conant vividly captures the personalities.”

--Boston Globe

“A thoroughly engrossing story, one Conant tells exceptionally well.”

--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Praise for Tuxedo Park

“Remarkable and remarkably told, as if F. Scott Fitzgerald had penned Batman.”

--Kirkus (starred review)

“A must read for all fans of World War II history. It will captivate. ”
--Businessweek

“Fascinating.”

--The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Jennet Conant is the author of Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist and the New York Times bestsellers The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington and Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. She has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Newsweek, and The New York Times. She lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1410437450
• ISBN 13: 9781410437457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 689