Volume 24, Number 2 · February 17, 1977
A Question of Confidence
By H. Stuart Hughes
Roosevelt and Churchill 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West
by Joseph P. Lash
Norton, 528 pp., $12.95
Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence
edited by Francis L. Loewenheim, edited by Harold D. Langley, edited by Manfred Jonas
Saturday Review Press/Dutton, 805 pp., $17.50
Two books with nearly identical titles—one is a recent Book-of-the-Month Club selection, the other was scarcely noticed when it appeared a year and a half ago. Yet the latter is not only the more important but also the more readable. This conclusion, which crept up on me by surprise, besides betraying the vagaries of publishing, prompts certain reflections about styles in writing the history of the Second World War, now that a full generation has gone by since its close.
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