Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another - Softcover

'Excellent' -- Andrew Marr, Daily Telegraph

'Highly readable . . . ALLIANCE tells this familiar tale well, and
is particularly strong on the human side of the story' -- Brendan Simms, Sunday Times

'Quite brilliant . . . Highly readable . . . First-class' -- Geoffrey Goodman, Tribune

'This is history caught in close, relentless focus . . . [Fenby]
tells a compelling story brilliantly well'
-- Peter Preston, Observer

Fenby, a superb researcher...tells a compelling story brilliantly
well and lets the most important facts shape his conclusions
-- The Observer, December 31, 2007

What Fenby does brilliantly, and sometimes movingly, is bring
these three extraordinary men to life --The Daily Telegraph, December 30, 2007

Throughout the war the 'Big Three' -- Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany -- and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war. This was the political rather than military struggle: a battle of wills and diplomacy between three men with vastly differing backgrounds, characters -- and agendas. Focusing on the riveting interplay between these three extraordinary personalities, Jonathan Fenby re-creates the major Allied conferences including Casablanca, Potsdam and Yalta to show exactly who bullied whom, who was really in control, and how the key decisions were taken. With his customary flair for narrative, character and telling detail, Fenby's account reveals what really went on in those smoke-filled rooms and shows how "jaw-jaw" as well as "war-war" led to Hitler's defeat and the shape of the post-war world.