"Fateful Choices": Evolving Views of Alliance Politics in World War II

[Richard Langworth]

At a time when Churchill's war leadership is vilified in lopsided paeans to Roosevelt,* Ian Kershaw's classic World War II study reminds us that FDR wasn't perfect either. https://richardlangworth.com/kershaw-fateful-choices

* "War and Peace," by not by Tolstoy. A Roosevelt historian skewers a particularly egregious book: "This is much ado about nothing—unless trashing Churchill is its real purpose...It is surely not the memoir that FDR never wrote." https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/hamilton-warpeace-kimball/