Princeton University Press
Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 3: The Complete Correspondence: Alliance Declining, February 1944-April 1945
Key Metrics
- Warren F Kimball
- Princeton University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780691653884
- 9.21 X 6.14 X 1.56 inches
- 2.69 pounds
- History > Military - World War II
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
The complete correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Including every written communication that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt during the five and a half years of their wartime leadership, this body of material is essential to an understanding of the politics and strategy of World War II as conducted by two of history's most charismatic men. Volume III takes the correspondence up to Roosevelt's death in April 1945.
Originally published in 1984.
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Author Bio
Warren F. Kimball, is the author of Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War (1997), The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (1991), and books on the Morgenthau Plan for Germany and the origins of Lend-Lease. He edited Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence (3 vols.,1984).
His over 50 essays on Churchill, Roosevelt the era of the Second World War have popped up like dandelions in the spring, most recently in a published collection of co-edited essays, FDR's World: War, Peace, and Legacies (2008). He is an academic adviser to the Churchill Centre, and senior editor for the Churchill journal, Finest Hour.
He chaired and served on the State Department Historical Advisory Committee, 1990-2003, and chair of the Secretary of State’s Review Panel on the Historical Office Issues in 2008-09.
While he still tries to unwrap the true "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" (FDR), and still is sifting the evidence as to whether or not Sir Winston ever really "smoked" that cigar B he is writing an institutional history of the US Tennis Association and is The USTA Historian.
He is Robert Treat Professor of History (emeritus) from Rutgers University -- where he taught for 32 years, was Pitt Professor at Cambridge University, 1987-88, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at The Citadel, 2002-04. He held two fellowships at Corpus Christi College and was a Churchill Archive Fellow, both at Cambridge.
He lives on Seabrook Island, just south of Charleston, South Carolina.
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