Roosevelt and Churchill
Subtitle: men of secrets
By: David Stafford.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 -- Friends and associates; Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965 -- Friends and associates; World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography; United States -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The author draws on wartime files only recently released as background for his new work - an intriguing look behind the congenial facade of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, revealing how each jealously guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests.".

"Theirs was a unique relationship. It was based on linked national histories and partially shared nationality - Churchill was half-American - similarities in class and education, a special love for the navy, and a common belief in the superiority of Anglo-Saxon institutions. But above all, it was cemented by shared enemies: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. On these foundations Roosevelt and Churchill constructed a fighting alliance unlike any other in history.

Each in his own way had to deal with two other allies of stature - Joseph Stalin and Charles de Gaulle - whose agendas were certainly different again.".

"Roosevelt and Churchill also developed an extraordinary personal relationship, communicating almost daily by telegram, telephone, meetings, or contact through intermediaries. Their complicated camaraderie - which was always dynamic - ended abruptly with FDR's death on April 12, 1945, just hours before American and British troops liberated Buchenwald and Belsen."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-342) and index.