Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
Our Battle with Britain
By Max Hastings
Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy
by Jeffrey A. Engel
Harvard University Press, 351 pp., $35.00
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt lavished such extravagant rhetoric upon the Anglo-American alliance in the Second World War that illusions about its reality persist to this day. By 1945, not only was the United States victorious, its participation in the war had also been profitable. The nation was wealthier than ever. Brit-ain's defiance of Hitler, however, had rendered it bankrupt. The contrast between the two nations' circumstances engendered deep British bitterness and envy, intensified by Congress's abrupt termination of Lend-Lease, the program that had provided billions of dollars worth of material to Allied nations, the moment peace was declared.
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