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A Covert Affair

Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS

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A Covert Affair

Auteur(s): Jennet Conant
Narrateur(s): Jan Maxwell
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 Best-selling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child's experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II. She also details the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is a fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China.

The eager, inexperienced 6-foot, 2-inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and 30 years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSS's ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia.

©2011 Jennet Conant (P)2011 Simon & Schuster, Inc. Amériques Armée et guerre Femmes Guerres et conflits Militaire Moderne Seconde Guerre mondiale True Crime XXe siècle Espionnage Japon impérial Célébrité Chine Amérique Latine Guerre Impérialisme

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"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1940s skillfully interweaves interviews, oral histories, memoirs, and recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents with unpublished diaries and letters.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)
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Excellent book! Julia Child is famous for bringing French cooking to North America, but this book reveals two other eras of her life. One is her intelligence work in World War II, as the title implies. The other is what she and Paul experienced when close friends were accused of being Soviet spies. I actually found this book more revealing about McCarthyism than books I have read on the Rosenbergs, as it provides a broader treatment. I also found it fascinating to hearing about how Julia and Paul responded to revelations about Jane and George, and how they came to terms with it… or didn’t. Highly recommended.

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