The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings
[PDF file]: […] Hastings attributes this to Britain’s (and the USA’s) national ‘culture’ of ‘intellectual honesty’, which is something else for us to congratulate ourselves upon. It also helped that Churchill and Roosevelt were more openminded than Hitler and Stalin. Reinforcing this trope were the exploits of the brave ‘few’ in the Battle of Britain – ‘few’ […]