Warren F. Kimball

Churchill & Roosevelt : the complete correspondence

The description for this book, Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence. (Three Volumes), will be forthcoming.

Allies at War: The Soviet, American, and British Experience, 1939–1945

Preface - Introduction - PART I STRATEGY - Great Britain: The Indirect Strategy A. Danchev - The Soviet Union: The Direct Strategy O.A. Rzheshevsky - The United States: The Global Strategy M.A.Stoler - Coalition: Structure, Strategy, and Statecraft T.A.Wilson et al - PART II ECONOMY - Great Britain: Cyclops R.J.Overy - The Soviet Union: Phoenix L.V.Pozdeeva - The United States: Leviathan T.A.Wilson - Cooperation: Trade, Aid, and Technology R.J.Overy et al - PART III HOME FRONT - Great Britain: The Peoples War? J.Harris - The Soviet Union: The Great Patriotic War? M.N.Narinsky - The United States: The Good War? C.C.Alexander - Perceptions: Images, Ideals and Illusions M.N.Narinsky, L.V.Pozdeeva et al - PART IV FOREIGN POLICY - Great Britain: Imperial Diplomacy D.Reynolds - The Soviet Union: Territorial Diplomacy L.V.Pozdeeva - The United States: Democratic Diplomacy L.C.Gardner & W.F.Kimball - Legacies: Allies, Enemies, and Posterity D.Reynolds et al - Index

Merely a Facade? Roosevelt and the Southwest Pacific

tralia, the regions geographically largest nation. So it is for Austra lian-American relations in the midst of a conflict that reshaped the geopolitical, economic, and even ideological face of the entire world. Nothing has made, and continues to make, Australians bitter and angry more than to be taken for granted. Britain had made a habit of it even as the colony developed its own identity as a nation—well be fore official independence. The most flagrant examples came in the two twentieth-century world wars. Had Britain made and suffered, on a per capita basis, Australias contributions and losses in World War I, His Majestys Government would have sued for peace. Then, in the early years of World War II, Britain followed a logical Germany first policy without ever consulting the Australians. Troops from Down Under,1 their homeland directly threatened by rapid Japanese expan sion, were expected (not asked) to participate in campaigns across North Africa that were peripheral to both the Pacific and the Euro pean wars—though not peripheral to British imperial interests. Then came the Americans, Douglas MacArthur and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who treated Australia as a launching pad either for personal fame or for a counterattack against the Japanese. Granted, the Australians des

Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency.

A detailed account describes how Roosevelt, limited by domestic politics and a high-profile campaign for his third term, secretly arranged to give England fifty U.S. destroyers, a pivotal act in the Second World War. 15,000 first printing.