A Sunday Times bestselling landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace
from the author of Appeasing Hitler 'An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told
immensely wide-ranging and utterly fascinating' JAMES HOLLAND 'The best book I have ever read
about the politics of the Second World War' TIM SHIPMAN **AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
2025** After the fall of France in June 1940 only Britain stood between Hitler and total
victory. Desperate for allies Winston Churchill did everything he could to bring the United
States into the conflict drive the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany apart and persuade neutral
countries to resist German domination. By 1942 after the German invasion of Russia and the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the British-Soviet-American alliance was in place. Yet it was
an improbable and incongruous coalition divided by ideology and politics and riven with
mistrust and deceit. Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin were partners in the fight to defeat
Hitler yet they were also rivals who disagreed on strategy imperialism and the future of
liberated Europe. Allies at War is a fast-paced narrative history based on material drawn
from over a hundred archives. Using vivid first-hand accounts and unpublished diaries we
enter the rooms where the critical decisions were made revealing the political drama behind
the military events. Ambitious and compelling Allies at War offers a fresh perspective on the
Second World War and the origins of the Cold War. 'Impeccably researched elegantly written
and compellingly argued' THE TIMES 'Terrific ... Bouverie is a historian with an exceptional
command of his subject' DAILY MAIL 'A new star is born ... Powerful and well researched'
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