‘In politics one should be guided by the calculation of forces.’ (Stalin at Potsdam)
Alliance is a thorough, insightful and gripping account of the wartime meetings between ‘the Big Three’ Allied leaders – Roosevelt and Churchill and Stalin – which determined the course of the Second World War and set the stage for the Cold War which followed it.
In actual fact the three leaders in question only met face to face on two occasions:
- Tehran 28 November-1 December 1943
- Yalta, 4-11 February 1945
The third great power conference, Potsdam July 1945, took place after Roosevelt’s death (12 April 1945) and with his successor, former vice-president Harry Truman
There were quite a few meetings between just Roosevelt and Churchill:
- Placentia Bay, Canada – 8 to 11 August 1941 – resulting in the Atlantic Charter
- First Washington Conference (codename: Arcadia), Washington DC, 22 December 1941 – 14 January 1942
- Second Washington Conference…
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