| Description |
xi, 692 pages : maps. ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword and acknowledgments -- PERIOD ONE: To January 1942: the compulsory coming together -- PERIOD TWO: 1942: The year of main strategic decisions and the containment of Germany (North Africa and Stalingrad) -- PERIOD THREE: From the Casablanca Conference, January 1943, to the assault on Sicily in July; the Coalition -- PERIOD FOUR: The Summer and Autumn of 1943; the collapse of Italy and the problems that ensued -- PERIOD FIVE: To the Conference of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, October 1943; The first coherent consultation about political matters -- PERIOD SIX: The Convocation of the Heads of State at Cairo and Tehran, November 1943; When the three wills came nearest concordance -- PERIOD SEVEN: Tehran to the cross-channel invasion, June-July 1944: Despite grave contention over Poland military cooperation proceeds -- PERIOD EIGHT: Summer and Autumn of 1944: the Channel crossing achieved, while political issues along the circumference of combat engage the Coalition -- PERIOD NINE: From the Second Quebec Conference to September 1944 to the Conference at Dumbarton Oaks; Plans to conclude the war and efforts to conceive the peace after the war -- PERIOD TEN: From the Churchill visit to Moscow to October 1944 to the Yalta Conference; Wartime political accords and coordination of strategic programs -- PERIOD ELEVEN: The Conference at Malta and Yalta, February 1945; Constant military understandings and inconstant diplomatic compromises -- PERIOD TWELVE: After Yalta; Corrosion within the Coalition as the Soviet Union extends its realm of control -- PERIOD THIRTEEN: The Spring of 1945; Victory close but the common cause cut by mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union -- PERIOD FOURTEEN: May 1945; the combat won; Three wills at odds, and the oncoming time clouded -- Appendix. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
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