The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
"Girls just fell at Roald's feet," declares Antoinette Marsh Haskell, the daughter of Dahl's closest American friend. "I think he slept with everybody on the east and west coasts that [was worth] more than $50,000 a year." Drawing on a previously unpublished trove of Dahl letters and other documents, Jennet Conant, an American journalist, has written what may prove the most comprehensive account of Dahl's raucous wartime exploits as a charming RAF attaché.
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