Based on documents from the Russian archives, this comprehensive study
charts the tumultuous wartime relationship between Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It
highlights the secret correspondence between the two leaders, records
their meetings and conversations in Moscow and at the Tehran, Yalta and
Potsdam summits, and discloses the confidential communications of Stalin
and his diplomats.
Churchill and Stalin has been compiled and edited by three leading
Russian and British historians of the Second World War. Their narrative
brings together military and political history, documentary analysis and
biography in an illuminating way. It reveals how Stalin and Churchill
clashed and collaborated in order to achieve victory, and it
demonstrates the deep personal relationship between these two great
personalities as well as their profound political differences. Even when
the Grand Alliance collapsed after the war, they retained their respect
and affection for each other.
Other important wartime personalities also feature in the documents
-President Roosevelt, the British and Soviet foreign ministers, Anthony
Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov, Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador in
London and Averell Harriman, the American ambassador in Moscow.
This fascinating documentary record is linked by a detailed narrative
and commentary on the Stalin-Churchill relationship in the context of
Anglo-Soviet relations during the war and the politics of the Grand
Alliance.
A landmark book - it will appeal to all those interested in Churchill
and Stalin and in the politics and diplomacy of the Second World War.
