Ebook {Epub PDF} A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS by Jennet Conant

Bestselling 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 and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were . A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young. Bestselling 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 and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who.

Paul's austere looks and prickly personality made it hard for him to compete with other men in the camp, Jennet Conant writes in A Covert Affair, but one woman seemed a promising match: Jane Foster, a smart and sexy blond OSS officer from a wealthy San Francisco family. Her wide-ranging adventures and flair for the dramatic made her the life. Jennet Conant recounts Julia and Paul Child's career in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. The future cook book author and television personality began her service in as a. The author of three previous accounts of World War II espionage (The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, , etc.) returns with the story of the Childs and their associates during their turbulent, eventful years with the Office of Strategic bltadwin.rugh her title identifies the Childs as her focus, Conant devotes even more attention to the puzzling.

A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young. She says that, while Child and her artist husband Paul were indeed in the OSS, They weren’t spies in the operational sense. Julia filed cables and other documents. Paul designed and built war rooms. But they were entrusted with secrets, worked with spies and were friends with spies. Paul and Julia Child – known to be her longtime friends – would be dragged into the affair and Paul would risk losing his job. Conant is the kind of writer who knows how to do her homework and.