Publisher Description
A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"
Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume—the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration—the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical context. Ranging from intimate personal greetings to weighty salvos about diplomacy and strategy, this book offers fascinating new revelations of the political machinations and human stories behind the Allied triumvirate.
Edited by two of the world's leading scholars on World War II diplomacy and based on a decade of research in British, American, and newly available Russian archives, this crucial addition to wartime scholarship illuminates an alliance that really worked while exposing its fractious limits and the issues and egos that set the stage for the Cold War that followed.
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About the Authors
David Reynolds is a professor of international history and a fellow of Christ’s
College, Cambridge. He was awarded a scholarship to study at Dulwich College,
then Cambridge and Harvard universities. He received the Wolfson History Prize in
2004 and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2005. He teaches and lectures
at Cambridge University, specializing in the two world wars and the Cold War.
Since October 2013 he has been chairman of the history faculty at Cambridge. He is the author of ten books, including several on modern America and its relations with Europe. In
addition to his teaching and writing, he has made nine documentaries on
twentieth-century history for the BBC, including the award-winning radio drama America,
Empire of Liberty.
About James Cameron Stewart
James Cameron Stewart is a veteran actor whose performances include roles in theater, film, and television. He was trained at Hull University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His credits include Outlander, Jericho, Flying Blind, Golden Years, Emmerdale, London’s Burning, Eastenders, Coronation Street, and Holby City.