For Linden MacIntyre, the story of his new book began with something easy to miss: A single line in a footnote.

The bestselling author and former Fifth Estate host had been researching a different project about Newfoundland during the Second World War when he stumbled across an odd detail. In the middle of a critical wartime summit between Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill sent a telegram to St. John’s inviting the governor of Newfoundland to lunch — and asking him to bring along a friend, Major General Sir Hugh Tudor.

“I could understand Churchill wanting a courtesy meeting with the governor,” MacIntyre recalled in an interview with the . “But why Tudor? Who the heck was this man that Churchill wanted at such an important moment?”

That question sent Mac

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