Saving Stalin : Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the cost of Allied victory in Europe / John Kelly.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780306902772
- 030690277X
- Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
- United States -- Military relations -- Great Britain
- United States -- Military relations -- Soviet Union
- Great Britain -- Military relations -- United States
- Great Britain -- Military relations -- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union -- Military relations -- United States
- Soviet Union -- Military relations -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
- International cooperation -- History -- 20th century
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory--and created a new and dangerous post-war world.
In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. Unofficially, he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin--the man who had killed over six million Ukrainians during the 1930s--was worth saving.
In this riveting and sweeping narrative, author John Kelly chronicles the turbulent wartime relationship between the great leaders--Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin--and military commanders of America, Britain, and the Soviet Union. Faced with the greatest challenge of the century, the Allied leaders and their war managers struggled against a common enemy--and each other. The story behind how victory was forged is an epic story, rich in drama, passion and larger-than-life personalities. The Allies eventually triumphed, but at what cost?
Using his trademark character-rich writing style and focusing on unique, unknown, and unexplored aspects of the story, Kelly offers a fresh perspective on the decision-making that changed the course of the war--and the course of history.
Saving Stalin brings to vivid life the epic story of the century's greatest human catastrophe. It is an unforgettable master work in historical narrative.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. And unofficially he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin -- the man who had starved four million Ukrainians to death in the early 1930s, another million in the purges of the late 1930s, and a further million in the labor camps of the Gulag -- was worth saving. Hopkins sensed that saving Stalin was going to be a treacherous business. In this powerful narrative, author John Kelly chronicles the turbulent wartime relationship between Britain, America, and the Soviet Union with a unique focus on unknown and unexplored aspects of the story, including how Britain and America employed the promise of a second front in France to restrain Soviet territorial ambitions and how the Soviets, in their turn, used threats of a separate peace with Germany to extract concessions from the western allies. Kelly paints a vivid picture of how the war impacted the relationship between the leaders and war managers among the Allies. In Saving Stalin, for the first time, the war becomes a major character, co-equal with the book's three other major characters: Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill"-- Provided by publisher.