Contributor
Container of (work): Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. Correspondence. Selections.
ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Imprint2018.
Descriptionxvii, 660 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction -- Strange encounters (June to September 1941) -- 'Two relatively unrelated wars' (September to December 1941) -- 'I can handle Stalin' (December 1941 to April 1942) -- Molotov the go-between (April to July 1942) -- Churchill's 'lump of ice' (August to OCtober 1942) -- Casablanca: a table just for two (November 1942 to January 1943) -- Second front when? (February to April 1943) -- Poles apart (April to July 1943) -- Fighting back: Ukraine and Italy (August to September 1943) -- Face to face: Moscow and Tehran (October to December 1943) -- The spirt of Tehran evaporates (January to March 1944) -- 'Force and facts' (March to June 1944) -- From east and west (June to September 1944) -- 'Only the three of us' (October to December 1944) -- Yalta and after (January to April 1945) -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"For nearly four years, and against all the odds, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin led the most effective alliance in history. Yet they met face-to-face only twice. Instead, the 'Big Three' had to communicate through secret telegrams and coded letters. They exchanged more than six hundred messages between 22 June 1941, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, and Roosevelt's sudden death on 12 April 1945. And, as this extraordinary correspondence demonstrates, each member of this implausible trio became fascinated by the other tow, genuinely trying, in his distinctive way, to build personal relationships. Ranging from intimate greetings to weighty salvos about diplomacy and strategy, The Kremlin Letters offers fascinating revelations of the political machinations and human stories behind the triumvirate. We learn how the Big Three wrestled with key issues such as the Second Front, the Arctic convoys and the fate of Poland, and explore the backstories of their wartime conferences at Tehran and Yalta. Based on a decade of research in British, American and newly available Russian archives, this is a crucial addition to wartime scholarship which illuminates an alliance that really worked - while also exposing its fractious limits." --Dust jacket.
