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Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another
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Product Description
Throughout the war the 'Big Three' -- Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany -- and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war. This was the political rather than military struggle: a battle of wills and diplomacy between three men with vastly differing backgrounds, characters -- and agendas. Focusing on the riveting interplay between these three extraordinary personalities, Jonathan Fenby re-creates the major Allied conferences including Casablanca, Potsdam and Yalta to show exactly who bullied whom, who was really in control, and how the key decisions were taken. With his customary flair for narrative, character and telling detail, Fenby's account reveals what really went on in those smoke-filled rooms and shows how "jaw-jaw" as well as "war-war" led to Hitler's defeat and the shape of the post-war world.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #279965 in Books
- Published on: 2008-01-07
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 480 pages
Editorial Reviews
Peter Preston, Observer
'This is history caught in close, relentless focus . . . [Fenby]
tells a compelling story brilliantly well'
The Daily Telegraph, December 30, 2007
What Fenby does brilliantly, and sometimes movingly, is bring
these three extraordinary men to life
The Observer, December 31, 2007
Fenby, a superb researcher...tells a compelling story brilliantly
well and lets the most important facts shape his conclusions
Customer Reviews
Fenby on top form!
Jonathan Fenby is really on top form with this rivetting account of the relationships between the three great men, with a revealing cameo appearance from de Gaulle. His attempt to use personal diaries, correspondence and eye winess accounts verbatim, in order to paint a vivid picture of the key decision making during the second half of World War II, works superbly. The result is a fascinating and entertaining book which is hard to put down and which sometimes "transports" you to the summit chamber as a witness to this extraordinary period of modern history.
