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Powers of persuasion: how Churchill brought America on side

A review of Sleep in Peace Tonight by James MacManus describes how Winston Churchill charmed the Americans into joining the second world war

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

7 February 2015

9:00 AM

Sleep in Peace Tonight James MacManus

Duckworth, pp.368, £16.99, ISBN: 9780715649350

In time for the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s death comes this pacy novel about his attempts to persuade the Americans to join the war. It is January 1941; President Roosevelt’s special envoy Harry Hopkins arrives in Blitz-torn London and is subjected to Churchill’s charm offensive. Hopkins, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking man of principle with a dislike of hereditary privilege, finds himself guided down every corridor of power.

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