📘 Joan Bright Astley, bore unique witness to the inner workings of the British high command during the second world war. From 1941 she was responsible for a special information centre in the cabinet war rooms, supplying confidential information to British commanders-in-chief. From 1943, she accompanied British delegations to the key inter-allied conferences, where strategy and the fate of the postwar world were decided. Her memoir, The Inner Circle (1971), paints eloquent pen portraits of allied leaders.Издательство: Little,Brown and Company