Fake news in World War Two
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🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:44.7 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Ellie Corthorne. |
| 0:55.9 | For today's podcast, we've got an interview with the author Henry Heming. |
| 1:00.1 | Henry's latest book, Our Man in New York, delves into MI6's covert campaign to bring the United States into the Second World War. |
| 1:08.0 | Our deputy digital editor, Eleanor Evans, met Henry in London to find out more. |
| 1:13.0 | What can you tell us about the situation in America at the time when your book opens? |
| 1:19.0 | The situation is looking, it's looking bleak for Britain. The book begins in June 1940. So it's in the days |
| 1:26.3 | after Dunkirk. And Britain is obviously in a perilous situation. |
| 1:31.3 | But meanwhile, over in America, there are polls suggesting that only 8%, 8% of the American people |
| 1:37.3 | think that now is the time for America to come into the war. And from a historical distance, |
| 1:43.9 | you might think, so what? Why does that really matter? |
| 1:46.8 | And of course, for Britain, most of its supplies are now coming from America. And within America, |
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