Allies at war : how the struggles between the Allied powers shaped the war and the world / by Tim Bouverie.
| Author/creator | Bouverie, Tim, 1987- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Crown, 2025. |
| Description | xv, 654 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- Part one: the Anglo-French alliance, 1939-1940 -- Allies -- The Scandinavian fiasco -- The fall -- Unfriendly fire -- Rebels with a cause -- Part Two: seeking allies, 1940-1941 -- The battle for America -- The reluctant neutral -- Friend or foe? -- Greek tragedy -- Desert war -- Fighting France -- The Soviet enigma -- Allied with hell -- "In God's good time" -- Atlantic meeting-Pacific infamy -- Part Three: The Grand Alliance, 1942-1943 -- Forging the Alliance -- The rising sun -- Fronts and frontiers -- The flickering torch -- Casablanca -- Special relationship -- Stress and strain -- The Big Three -- Part Four: toward victory, 1944-1945 -- The fourth policeman -- Turncoats and partisans -- Brave new world -- The Polish agony -- Spheres of influence -- Yalta -- Triumph and tragedy -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "A fascinating look at the complex relationships between the Allied powers-far more fraught than we understood-- that defined the course of World War II and the world beyond, from critically acclaimed author of Appeasement Tim Bouverie's Winning the War offers a ground-breaking exploration of the complex relations between the Allied powers during World War II. Far from the lockstep agreement depicted in popular culture or the cozy "special relationship" of the United States and Britain today, Bouverie shows how the wartime alliance was at every turn threatened by mistrust, rivalry, hypocrisy, and deceit, as well as how all the allies, from the very start of the war, were intensely focused on the world that would emerge once hostilities had ceased. At the center of the book is the relationship between the three principal Allies-the British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States. Beginning with the brief Anglo-French Alliance of 1939-1940 and the tragic consequences of its disintegration, Bouverie follows Britain's desperate quest to acquire allies following the fall of France, and then the functioning of the Grand Alliance after the United States and the Soviet Union joined in 1941. Though the alliance was dominated by the major powers, Bouverie also shows the powerful impact of smaller countries on the course of the war-of the twenty neutral European states at the outbreak of fighting, only six managed to stay out of the war. Featuring a remarkable cast of characters that goes beyond the so-called "Big Three"-Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin-to the lieutenants and diplomats whose advice was at turns welcomed and rejected, Winning the War offers a remarkable 360 degree view of this tumultuous period. Drawing on sixty-five private archives in Britain and the United States-several of which have never before been accessed by historians-, Bouverie reveals an untold story at the heart of World War II, one that had a profound shape on the world to come"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | Allies at War is a gripping narrative history that explores the fragile and complex alliance between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material and firsthand accounts, the book examines the tensions, rivalries, and strategic disagreements that shaped the Grand Alliance, while also delving into Britain’s strained relations with other nations and resistance movements. Through this lens, it reveals how the uneasy cooperation among the Allies influenced both the war’s outcome and the postwar world order. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| LCCN | 2024053656 |
| ISBN | 9780593138366 |
| ISBN | 0593138368 |
| ISBN | ebook |
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