Fighting With Allies

America and Britain in Peace and War

Robin Renwick

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781849549790
• eBook ISBN: 9781785901102
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

It was Winston Churchill who, in his speech at Fulton, Missouri, advocated a 'special relationship between the British Commonwealth... and the United States... the continuance of intimate relationships between our military advisers, leading to the common study of potential dangers'.Through the eyes of Churchill, Roosevelt and their successors, Robin Renwick traces the development of the Anglo-American relationship since the desperate summer of 1940, and the part it played in shaping the post-war world.Detecting once again a whiff of the 1930s in the air, he concludes that, as one of the ties that binds Europe and North America, the relationship remains an important one, and not only to Britain and the United States.There are many on both sides of the Atlantic who will think that the world would have been poorer without it. Its future will depend on learning the lessons of military overstretch in Iraq and Afghanistan and resolving the mismatch between Britain's desire to play a role in world affairs and the resources allocated to doing so.

Table of contents

• Cover
• TITLE PAGE
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF PLATES
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• FOREWORD
• PROLOGUE
• 1: ‘YOU MUST NOT SPEAK OF US AS COUSINS’
• 2: ‘WE WILL GET NOTHING FROM THE AMERICANS BUT WORDS’
• 3: ‘IN THE LONG HISTORY OF THE WORLD THIS IS A THING TO DO NOW’
• 4: ‘YOUR BOYS ARE NOT GOING TO BE SENT INTO ANY FOREIGN WARS’
• 5: ‘THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN HAS NOTHING TO HIDE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES’
• 6: ‘THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH WE COULD POSSIBLY LOSE THIS WAR’
• 7: ‘MY GOD! NOW THEY’VE STARTED SHOOTING’
• 8: ‘THIS IS MUCH THE GREATEST THING WE HAVE EVER ATTEMPTED’
• 9: ‘EVEN SPLENDID VICTORIES AND WIDENING OPPORTUNITIES DO NOT BRING US TOGETHER ON STRATEGY’
• 10: ‘IKE AND I WERE POLES APART WHEN IT CAME TO THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR’
• 11: ‘THE GREATEST AMERICAN FRIEND WE HAVE EVER KNOWN’
• 12: ‘ALLIES OF A KIND’
• 13: ‘I MUST ALWAYS KNOW WHAT IS IN THE DOCUMENTS I SIGN’
• 14: ‘THE PATIENT IS SINKING WHILE THE DOCTORS DELIBERATE’
• 15: ‘THE JEWS ARE A RELIGION, NOT A NATION OR A RACE’
• 16: ‘I THINK IT IMPROBABLE THAT THE AMERICANS WOULD BECOME INVOLVED’
• 17: ‘ALL THE PASSION OF A WOODCHUCK CHEWING A CARROT’
• 18: ‘THE TIMELY USE OF ATOMIC WEAPONS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED’
• 19: ‘WHAT COULD BE MORE EARTHY THAN COAL OR STEEL?’
• 20: ‘NEVER HAD SO FEW LOST SO MUCH SO STUPIDLY AND SO FAST’
• 21: ‘THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE ANTI-COLONIAL POWERS’
• 22: ‘UNITED STATES POLICY IS EXAGGERATEDLY MORAL, AT LEAST WHERE NON-AMERICAN INTERESTS ARE CONCERNED’
• 23: ‘THE US ARE BEING VERY DIFFICULT’
• 24: ‘NOTHING JUSTIFIES DOUBLE-CROSSING US’
• 25: ‘WE CAN FURNISH A LOT OF FIG LEAVES’
• 26: ‘IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG YOU MAY BE SURE THAT MR DULLES WILL PLACE THE BLAME ELSEWHERE’
• 27: ‘THEY HAVE COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN ME’
• 28: ‘IT IS GOING TO BE A COLD WINTER’
• 29: ‘THANK GOD THEY’VE TURNED BACK, JUST BEFORE THE PRIME MINISTER GAVE WAY’
• 30: ‘THE LADY HAS ALREADY BEEN VIOLATED IN PUBLIC’
• 31: ‘THIS FRIGHTFUL TANGLE OF FEAR AND SUSPICION’
• 32: ‘I DON’T THINK WE ARE IN FOR A VERY HAPPY FOUR DAYS’
• 33: ‘WE DO NOT SUFFER IN THE WORLD FROM SUCH AN EXCESS OF FRIENDS’
• 34: ‘A COUPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TOLD BY EVERYONE THAT THEY SHOULD BE IN LOVE’
• 35: ‘HE WANTED TO ESTABLISH HIS OWN SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP’
• 36: ‘YOUR PROBLEMS WILL BE OUR PROBLEMS AND WHEN YOU LOOK FOR FRIENDS, WE WILL BE THERE’
• 37: ‘THAT LITTLE ICE-COLD BUNCH OF LAND DOWN THERE’
• 38: ‘DOING THE WORK OF THE FREE WORLD’
• 39: ‘THE FOCUS OF EVIL IN THE MODERN WORLD’
• 40: ‘THE OBJECTIVE IS TO HAVE A WORLD WITHOUT WAR’
• 41: ‘NO TIME TO GO WOBBLY’
• 42: ‘ALL NECESSARY MEANS’
• 43: ‘THE WHOLE OF THE BALKANS ARE NOT WORTH THE BONES OF A SINGLE POMERANIAN GRENADIER’
• 44: ‘THE BRITISH WERE FURIOUS’
• 45: ‘SHE COULD NOT SEE ANY POLICY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEM’
• 46: ‘THE CLOSEST RELATIONSHIP I WOULD HAVE WITH ANY FOREIGN LEADER’
• 47: ‘WE WERE FORTUNATE TO HAVE THEM ON OUR SIDE’
• 48: ‘I WILL BE WITH YOU, WHATEVER’
• 49: ‘I HOPE THAT’S NOT THE LAST TIME WE SEE THEM’
• 50: ‘IT WAS, AFTER ALL, THE CASUS BELLI’
• 51: ‘THIS ISN’T WORKING’
• 52: ‘WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT WE WERE GETTING INTO’
• 53: ‘WHEN WE SAVED THE WORLD’
• 54: BRITAIN ‘MAY NOT WANT TO PLAY AS CENTRAL A ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS ’
• 55: THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
• 56: BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
• 57: SPECIAL ANY MORE?
• ABBREVIATIONS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• PLATES
• ALSO BY ROBIN RENWICK
• COPYRIGHT