PDF The Kremlin Letters Stalin&rsquos Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt Audible Audio Edition David Reynolds editor Vladimir Pechatnov editor James Cameron Stewart Tantor Audio Books
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A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"Â
Stalin exchanged more than 600 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.Â
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.
PDF The Kremlin Letters Stalin&rsquos Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt Audible Audio Edition David Reynolds editor Vladimir Pechatnov editor James Cameron Stewart Tantor Audio Books
"Not written well references are absent. Needs work"
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The Kremlin Letters Stalin&rsquos Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt Audible Audio Edition David Reynolds editor Vladimir Pechatnov editor James Cameron Stewart Tantor Audio Books Reviews :
The Kremlin Letters Stalin&rsquos Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt Audible Audio Edition David Reynolds editor Vladimir Pechatnov editor James Cameron Stewart Tantor Audio Books Reviews
- The characters in this masterpiece are shrouded in intrigue. There is the second front Stalin kept pushing for over two years - - operation overlord. There is Churchill who would insinuate that without the Molotov-Rippentrop pact of August 1939, the German invasion of Russia would not have happened in the first place. Even so, as the authors point out, the alliance of the big three worked anyway. Make this fine book part of your library. This study will never get outdated. The explanations of the cables/ telegrams and letters to and from Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt are scholarly and sophisticated, backed up with in depth analysis. I highly recommend this work for any world war two buff. Finally and also important i improved my vocabulary. Looked up words bouleversement, casuistry, a deux, postprandial, métier, guerre a outrance and dudgeon.
- Not written well references are absent. Needs work
- Any reader interested in the direct political interaction between the top three Allied leaders in World War II, especially as related to European affairs, will profit from this book.
The co-authors (one British, the other Russian) provide useful background commentary on the many messages that rifled between Moscow, London, and Washington, D.C. (I do think an American historian may have taken slightly different views at times than these two historians, but nonetheless, many thought provoking subjects are brought forward.)
Some specific thoughts of mine 1) I did not like the occasional use of the term "Wheelchair President" when referring to FDR; 2) The subject matters gathering most of the attention of the three leaders seemed to be the Second Front, the Northern Convoy, and Poland--both the Katyn Affair and its post-war governance; 3) A British ambassador to Moscow is referred to often, usually quite positively Archibald Clark Kerr. Those wanting a good book about this odd diplomat might read "Radical Diplomat" by Donald Gillies (1999); 4) I do not agree with a number of the assessments scattered throughout this effort. For example, I do not agree that "In retrospect, the Battle of the Bulge seems like a temporary blip on the Western Front ..." nor do I agree that "Taken in the round, Yalta therefore seemed like a satisfactory piece of complex diplomatic bargaining."; and, 5) I certainly do not accept the rather positive picture painted of Stalin, a man who was responsible for killing millions of his own citizens over the decades, not to mention the cold-blooded murder of the Polish officer corps at Katyn.
All-in-all, however, this is a good book for presenting the actual messages between the three leaders who presided over the hard won victory in World War II.
