From War to Peace
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Abstract In covering the final months of the war, this chapter includes Ismay’s recollections of the Allied conferences at Malta, Yalta, and Potsdam, an account of one of Churchill’s final clashes with the Chiefs of Staff (over Air Marshal Tedder), and the feasibility study commissioned by Churchill for an offensive (codenamed “Unthinkable”) against the Soviet Union. The chapter describes Ismay’s farewell to Churchill as Prime Minister and his relationship with the new Prime Minister Attlee, Ism