That Sneaky Spy: A Book Review of Roald Dahl's Time as a British Spy named Roald Dahl crashed in the Western Desert of North Africa. Since the accident, Dahl is rewarded with serious injuries to his head, nose and back. In 1942, Dahl was ordered to take a job at the British Embassy in Washington, where he worked as an assistant air attaché. He was 26 years old and desperately wanted to be in the thick of battle, where he could shoot other enemy planes and soldiers from his Gladiator plane. He didn't want to be pushed into an office where he had to sit at a desk for 11 hours. Soon after his arrival at the US Capitol, Dahl became "" involved in the complex web of intrigue masterminded by [William] Stephenson, the legendary Canadian spy chief, who managed to defeat the FBI and the State Department and managed to create an elaborate clandestine organization whose purpose was to weaken isolationist forces in America and influence U.S. policy in favor of Great Britain. Tall, handsome and intelligent, Dahl had all the makings of an ideal operative and was all England could have asked for as a romantic representative of their imperiled island. He was also arrogant, eccentric, and incorrigible, and probably the last person anyone would consider trustworthy enough to trust with anything secret was a survivor. When he found himself in trouble, he was shrewd enough to make himself useful to British intelligence, providing them with gossip articles that showed he had a nose for scandal and a writer's ear for damning detail. Already assigned to the British Air Force......middle of paper......ct it allowed the American government to lend the Allied powers the materials needed for the war (Hinsley). Soon after his arrival in the U.S. capital, Dahl met Charles Marsh, a newspaper industrialist who befriended important and powerful people in Washington DC. Marsh was an "exemplary host and an entertaining and informative guide to Washington's stratified society, where old and new money, the congressional apparatus and the diplomatic corps, all struggled for recognition" (78). Bibliography Hinsley, F.H., et al British Intelligence in the Second World War. Vol. 1-5. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1997-1990 : Pantheon, 1992Persico, Joseph E. Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. New York: Random House 2001

Topic > That Sneaky Spy: A Book Review of Roald Dahl's Time as a British Spy named Roald Dahl crashed in the Western Desert of North Africa. Since the accident, Dahl is rewarded with serious injuries to his head, nose and back. In 1942, Dahl was ordered to take a job at the British Embassy in Washington, where he worked as an assistant air attaché. He was 26 years old and desperately wanted to be in the thick of battle, where he could shoot other enemy planes and soldiers from his Gladiator plane. He didn't want to be pushed into an office where he had to sit at a desk for 11 hours. Soon after his arrival at the US Capitol, Dahl became "" involved in the complex web of intrigue masterminded by [William] Stephenson, the legendary Canadian spy chief, who managed to defeat the FBI and the State Department and managed to create an elaborate clandestine organization whose purpose was to weaken isolationist forces in America and influence U.S. policy in favor of Great Britain. Tall, handsome and intelligent, Dahl had all the makings of an ideal operative and was all England could have asked for as a romantic representative of their imperiled island. He was also arrogant, eccentric, and incorrigible, and probably the last person anyone would consider trustworthy enough to trust with anything secret was a survivor. When he found himself in trouble, he was shrewd enough to make himself useful to British intelligence, providing them with gossip articles that showed he had a nose for scandal and a writer's ear for damning detail. Already assigned to the British Air Force......middle of paper......ct it allowed the American government to lend the Allied powers the materials needed for the war (Hinsley). Soon after his arrival in the U.S. capital, Dahl met Charles Marsh, a newspaper industrialist who befriended important and powerful people in Washington DC. Marsh was an "exemplary host and an entertaining and informative guide to Washington's stratified society, where old and new money, the congressional apparatus and the diplomatic corps, all struggled for recognition" (78). Bibliography Hinsley, F.H., et al British Intelligence in the Second World War. Vol. 1-5. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1997-1990 : Pantheon, 1992Persico, Joseph E. Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. New York: Random House 2001