Wealth of an Empire
Wealth of an Empire tells the dramatic true story of a top-secret mission that changed the course of World War II: Great BritainAs shipment of virtually its entire treasury across the treacherous waters of the North Atlantic to safety in the United States and Canada. Had the Germans captured or sunk the treasure-laden ships, the war could have been lost more than eighteen months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The British government authorized this immensely risky and long-running operation not only because of the obvious danger that GermanyAs rising militancy posed but also because of the isolationist sentiment that permeated both American society and Congress. AmericaAs refusal to sell arms and other goods without payment up front left Britain little choice but to mount this daring operation. Only a few banking, political, and military leaders were responsible for the complicated logistical and security procedures that were designed to safeguard the transfer of both gold and financial securities to North America. Although the special shipments were initially of relatively modest value, the strategic imperative changed dramatically when Germany threatened to invade Britain in the summer of 1940. Fearing that BritainAs wealth might fall into German hands, in an audacious yet visionary decision newly installed prime minister Winston Churchill authorized the evacuation of nearly all of BritainAs liquid assets. Wealth of an Empire uses previously unused and unavailable original documentsA¹including those from the British National Archives, the Bank of EnglandAs archives, the Imperial War Museum, and the Bank of CanadaAs archivesA¹to shed new light on this underexplored aspect of BritainAs wartime history.... 121, 137 Canadian Pacific Railway, 135a36, 171 Canadian Red Cross, 42a43 Caradoc, HMS, 39a42 Carlile, Wilson, ... 34, 77a81, 88a89, 133a 34, 160 wara#39;s end, 169 City of Lincoln, 106a7 Clark, Bennett, 26 Clark, Kenneth, 83a84 Clement, ... 132, 150 code names, 97a98, 175a76 code of silence, viiiaix code- breaking, 55 Colville, John Chamberlain and Churchill, ... Roderick, ix corvette escorts, 45, 167 Cossack, HMS, 123a24 costs to ship, 135a36 counterfactual analysis, 156a68anbsp;...
| Title | : | Wealth of an Empire |
| Author | : | Robert Switky |
| Publisher | : | Potomac Books, Inc. - 2013-09-30 |
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