The woman who censored Churchill / Ruth Ive.

"The Second World War was a period when communication between the Allies had to be subjected to the utmost secrecy. One remaining transatlantic hotline existed at this rime - that between Winston Churchill and his American counterpart Franklin D. Roosevelt. Reserved for conversations of the utmost importance between key political figures, heads of state and the royal family, this top secret communication link nevertheless had to be closely monitored to ensure nothing was said that might compromise security. Ruth Ive, then a young stenographer working in the Ministry of Information, had the job of censoring the line, and she spent three and a half years of the war listening into conversations across the Atlantic, ready to cut the line if anything was said that might pose a security risk. In this remarkable history of the secret wartime communication between Britain and the US, the woman who censored the line tells her story for the very first time."--Jacket.