Frank Fairfield

Bodyguard of Lies

The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill’s Cover-Up

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Political mendacity – especially in wartime – did not begin with Tony Blair. Churchill himself was honest enough to admit: ‘Truth is so precious that sometimes it has to be protected by a bodyguard of lies.’ One awful occasion when the great man deployed that bodyguard in force is the subject of this excellent and moving investigation by journalist-turned-historian Jonathan Fenby.

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