Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin

The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought

Herbert Feis

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691624075, 9780691056074
• eBook ISBN: 9781400875122
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World War II
• Index: History

This is the story of the great coalition formed by the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia to combat the Axis in World War II. Mr. Feis traces the ideas and purposes that governed each member of this alliance, and the gradual separation between the West and Russia as victory over Germany was achieved. While adding new information and new interpretation, Mr. Feis comprehends this "one war and three wills" as a whole, relating diplomacy and strategy to each other against the background of circumstance. The acts and characteristics of the dominating figures—Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin—emerge in new historical perspective as the story tells what they did and why. The narrative begins early in 1941 as the coalition is emerging and ends after the collapse of Germany in 1945. Among the dements arc: the early grasping of the Soviet government for territorial claims; the continuous discussion over strategy; the dramatic difficulties with the Soviet authorities over control of Italy, Poland, and Rumania; the variations in the plans for Germany, including dismemberment; the Casablanca, Moscow, Cairo, Teheran, and Yalta conferences; the spreading disquiet over Soviet intentions in Europe and the Far East.

Originally published in 1966.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword and Acknowledgments
• Period 1 To January 1942: The Compulsory Coming Together
• Period 2 1942: The Year of Main Strategic Decisions and the Containment of Germany (North Africa and Stalingrad)
• Period 3 From the Casablanca Conference, January 1943, to the Assault on Sicily in July; The Coalition Carries on Despite Cacophony over the Cross-Channel Invasion
• Period 4 The Summer and Autumn of 1943; The Collapse of Italy and the Problems That Ensued
• Period 5 To the Conference of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, October 1943; The First Coherent Consultation About Political Matters
• Period 6 The Convocation of the Heads of State at Cairo and Teheran, November 1943; When the Three Wills Came Nearest Concordance
• Period 7 Teheran to the Cross-Channel Invasion, June-July 1944: Despite Grave Contention over Poland Military Cooperation Proceeds
• Period 8 Summer and Autumn of 1944; The Channel Crossing Achieved, While Political Issues Along the Circumference of Combat Engage the Coalition
• Period 9 From the Second Quebec Conference in September 1944 to the Conference at Dumbarton Oaks; Plans to Conclude the War and Efforts to Conceive for Peace After the War
• Period 10 From the Churchill Visit to Moscow in October 1944 to the Yalta Conference; Wartime Political Accords and Coordination of Strategic Programs
• Period 11 The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, February 1945; Constant Military Understandings and Inconstant Diplomatic Compromises
• Period 12 After Yalta; Corrosion within the Coalition as the Soviet Union Extends Its Realm of Control
• Period 13 The Spring of 1945; Victory Close but the Common Cause Cut by Mistrust Between the West and the Soviet Union
• Period 14 May 1945; The Combat Won; The Three Wills at Odds, and the Oncoming Time Clouded
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Index (Part One, General Contents; Part Two, Printed Sources Cited)