GREAT BRITAIN AND POLAND BEFORE AND AFTER YALTA (1943-1945): A REASSESSMENT
Year: 2016

British policy toward Poland requires a reassessment for two reasons: firstly, it is seen by most Poles as the callous betrayal of an ally; secondly, in most American studies of Yalta and of wartime diplomacy in general, Britain is overshadowed by the United States. On the first point, contrary to the traditional Polish view, all available evidence indicates that, given the circumstances, Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill did as much as he could to secure an independent Poland, both before and