Allies in War: Britain and America Against the Axis Powers 1940-1945

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Allies in War offers a complete diplomatic and military history of the Second World War, as it was fought by the United States and Britain. Award-winning historian Mark Stoler examines the war these two powers fought in the European and Far Eastern theatres against Germany, Italy and Japan and the nature of the Churchill-Roosevelt special relationship. Stoler emphasizes the unprecedented co-operation between Britain and the USA but also undermines the standard Churchillian view of the essential smoothness of this process. There were many, often substantial, disagreements between the two allies, and occasionally formal agreement masked continuing dispute in practice. This is a fully rounded history of the British-American effort and makes compelling reading for those who want to understand the intricacies and complexities of this unique relationship.

He is the author of numerous publications including The Politics of the Second Front: Mark A. Stoler is a Professor of History at the University of Vermont. He has also been a visiting professor at the US Naval War College and the US Military Academy at West Point. In 2002 he won the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History for Allies and Adversaries, and in 2004 he was President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

'An important new study by one of the leading scholars in the field.' David Reynolds, University of Cambridge 'Lucid, balanced, nuanced and acute, giving equal space to the wars in both Europe and Asia, Stoler's interpretive overview is a valuable and welcome addition to its field' The Journal of Military History This new volume on World War II is a decided tour de force The Journal of Military History 'This new volume on World War II is a decided tour de force. Within less than 300 pages, Stoler provides and excellent and readable overview on a global scale of the interrelated wartime military, strategic, and diplomatic decisions and contributions of the United States and Great Britain Stoler's forte is elegantly concise syntheses of massive outpourings of scholarship in both military and diplomatic history and judicious, balanced, and stimulating assessments of often controversial issues Lucid, balanced, nuanced, and acute, giving equal space to the wars in both Europe and Asia, Stoler's interpretive overview is a valuable and welcome addition to the field.' Military History, Dr Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong This is the work of a mature historian, comfortably in command of his material, using his considerable experience to construct a tightly controlled narrative that carries the reader forward with little effort on his or her part; a sure sign of considerable effort on the part of the writer It is a masterly summary of existing scholarship, but one enriched by his own knowledge of the archival and secondary material As one might expect from Stoler's previous work, this book shines when it comes to grand strategy; the reader wanting a potted (and accurate) account of the evolution of Anglo-American grand strategy will find all he or she will need here. John Charmley, The International History Review