Summary:

Based on the BBC/PBS television documentary series and selected by
the History Book Club, this is the revelatory account of the plots
and enmity behind the Allied leaders’ united front. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle held the destiny of
the Free World in their hands as Nazi forces stormed through Europe
in the 1940s. Together, they stood firmly against Hitler. They
inspired their troops; they gave their nations confidence in the
prospect of an Allied victory. Yet the relations between these three
preeminent statesmen, outside the public eye, were continually riven
by rivalry, distrust, contention, and often ruthless duplicity, as
this probing volume shows. With access to official archives never
before available, Simon Berthon examines the antipathy that
increasingly eroded the negotiations among three of the most powerful
world leaders in the twentieth century and that significantly colored
not only Allied policy during the war but also the relations of
General Charles De Gaulle’s France with Britain and America after it.
For even as late as 1943, by virtue of misinformation being fed to
him about De Gaulle, Roosevelt was still supporting the collaborative
Vichy government in France. Yet, as Berthon’s compelling chronicle
demonstrates, De Gaulle would heroically hold his ground in the cause
of a Free France and ultimately—in the eleven years of his
presidency—would exact against the "Anglo-Saxon powers" his own
revenge. Allies at War is indexed and illustrated with 8 pages of
historical photographs.

Book Details:

Physical Description: 356 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2002-12-23

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