The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence With Churchill and Roosevelt - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0300226829 ISBN 13: 9780300226829

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2018

Riassunto

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II’s Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"

Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume—the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration—the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical context. Ranging from intimate personal greetings to weighty salvos about diplomacy and strategy, this book offers fascinating new revelations of the political machinations and human stories behind the Allied triumvirate.
 
Edited and narrated by two of the world’s leading scholars on World War II diplomacy and based on a decade of research in British, American, and newly available Russian archives, this crucial addition to wartime scholarship illuminates an alliance that really worked while exposing its fractious limits and the issues and egos that set the stage for the Cold War that followed.

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Recensione:

'Here, the leading British and Russian historians of the Grand Alliance present a gripping and all-encompassing documentary history of Stalin's relations with Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. A feast of scrupulous research, The Kremlin Letters rewrites the history of the war as we knew it.'--Gabriel Gorodetsky, editor of The Maisky Diaries and Quondam Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

'A must-have volume for anyone seeking to elucidate the interplay between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. It provides a detailed commentary explaining the often constrained language of diplomacy and sets it within the context of what was happening at the time. A compelling and comprehensive account of the triangular network of exchanges at the top level which helped shape this vital period.'--Bridget Kendall, former BBC Diplomatic Correspondent

'The fascinating wartime correspondence between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt is set in historical context by its meticulous editors in an admirably succinct and perceptive narrative: a model of Anglo-Russian scholarly cooperation.'--Sir Rodric Braithwaite, historian, diplomat and former British Ambassador to Moscow

'This is a masterful work of history. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand how the world we live in was shaped not only by the whole sequence of events of 1941-45, but also by the thoughts and feelings of just three extraordinary individuals.'--Noel Malcolm, in a five-starred review in the Sunday Telegraph

'Is there anything more to learn from the World War II correspondence of Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt? I'd have wondered before reading this volume, but Vladimir Pechatnov, David Reynolds, and their international research team have changed my mind. For not only is The Kremlin Letters filled with new information: it's also a pioneering effort to embed documents within a single sustained narrative, all the more compelling for the collaborations that produced it. Which simultaneously give it precision, great sweep, and best of all freshness - a magnificent accomplishment!'--John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University

'This is the most ambitious and important book from Yale University Press' invaluable series of documentary histories drawn from the Soviet archives... Beyond the messages themselves, what makes this volume so valuable are the editors' brisk and penetrating historical introductions and the context they provide for each message.'--Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2019 edition --.

'A must-have volume for anyone seeking to elucidate the interplay between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. It provides a detailed commentary explaining the often constrained language of diplomacy and sets it within the context of what was happening at the time. A compelling and comprehensive account of the triangular network of exchanges at the top level which helped shape this vital period.' --Bridget Kendall, former BBC Diplomatic Correspondent

'The fascinating wartime correspondence between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt is set in historical context by its meticulous editors in an admirably succinct and perceptive narrative: a model of Anglo-Russian scholarly cooperation.' --Sir Roderic Braithwaite, historian, diplomat and former British Ambassador to Moscow

L'autore:

David Reynolds is professor of international history at Cambridge University and the author of eleven books. Vladimir Pechatnov, a prolific scholar of the Cold War, is chair of European and American studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0300226829
• ISBN 13: 9780300226829
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 660
• Redattore: Reynolds David, Pechatnov Vladimir