Volume 32, Number 2 · February 14, 1985
The Big Two
By Martin Gilbert
Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence Vol. I, Alliance Emerging Vol. II, Alliance Forged Vol. III, Alliance Declining
edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball
Vol. I, 674 pp.
Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence Vol. II, Alliance Forged
edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball
773 pp.
Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence Vol. III, Alliance Declining
edited with commentary by Warren F. Kimball
Princeton University Press, Vol. III, 742 pp., $150.00 (the set)
If the 'special relationship' between Britain and the United States has meaning, then it is nowhere more real than in the wartime relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Yet serious problems exist in the recounting of it. Roosevelt died during the last months of the European war, before he could write his memoirs and without having kept a diary. Churchill also kept no diary, and in his memoirs, written immediately after the Allied victory, he was determined, in the interests of smooth postwar Anglo-American relations, to put his dealings with Roosevelt in the best possible light. Although Churchill published in his memoirs the full text of hundreds of his letters to Roosevelt, their complete correspondence is set out for the first time in these three volumes, expertly compiled by Professor Warren Kimball.
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