British Prime Minister Churchill realized in September 1940 that the war would be lost unless American support came. In Our man in New York British espionage historian Henry Hemming explains how the US managed to get involved in the conflict. His book is in fact about Bill Stephenson, the man who had to prepare public opinion in the United States for military support for Europe on behalf of the English secret service MI6. For that it wasSib Committee‘deployed, a division of the secret service whose task was’sibs‘ or to spread ‘rumours’. Stephenson had a long way to go, as by...