Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-582) and index

1. The big three : first encounter -- 2. Retrospect : three paths to power -- 3. The international setting, 1933-38 -- 4. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in the gathering storm -- 5. The onset of war, 1939 -- 6. The Phoney war, 1939-40 -- 7. Churchill alone, 1940 -- 8. The Common law alliance, 1941 -- 9. Global war : the beginnings of the grand alliance -- 10. The Caesura, December 1941 -- 11. The Alliance confused : December 1941-July 1942 -- 12. The invasion of North Africa-a second front? -- 13. The approach to Teheran : January-October 1943 -- 14. The Teheran conference : November-December 1943 -- 15. The Alliance dominant -- 16. The hidden dimension -- 17. The Crimean conference : Yalta, 4-11 February 1945 -- 18. The Alliance victorious -- 19. The big three : into the future

Examines the three leaders, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, who were tempered in peacetime by personal and political adversity for their wartime rules

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