The Tehran Conference was the first wartime meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The conference focused on military strategy against Nazi Germany and postwar planning. They agreed on Operation Overlord (the…
<p><span class="deck">Discreet helpers have worked on the speeches and papers of many Presidents, but a nation in a time of trial will respond best “to the Great Man himself, standing alone”</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Vodka at breakfast was only one of the minor problems when Russians entertained Americans</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> FOR SEVEN DECADES OUR EBULLIENT COUSIN INSTRUCTED US ON EVERYTHING: THE BOERS, PROHIBITION, HITLER, CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S FEET, AND THE COMMON CAUSE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The United States remained officially neutral, but many Americans fought alongside both opposing armies and several became legendary heroes</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> to Joseph P. Lash for Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The Partnership That Saved the West</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">His newly discovered diary reveals how the President saw the conference that ushered in the Cold War</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Conjectural or speculative history can be a silly game, as in “What if the Roman legions had machine guns?” But this historian argues that to enlarge our knowledge and understanding it sometimes makes very good sense to ask …</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifty years after FDR first took office, a British statesman and historian evaluates the President’s role in the twentieth century’s most important partnership</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The great man’s daughter-in-law draws a portrait of the statesman at the top of his career and at the bottom</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it—but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In a conflict that saw saturation-bombing, Auschwitz, and the atom bomb, poison gas was never used in the field. What prevented it?</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">For a few weeks, Hitler came close to winning World War II. Then came a train of events that doomed him. An eloquent historian reminds us that,however unsatisfactory our world may be today, it almost was unimaginably worse.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> An outstanding American historian follows Winston Churchill through a typical day during his political exile in the 1930s and uses that single twenty-four-hour period to reveal the character of the century’s greatest Englishman in all its complexity. See Churchill lay bricks, paint a landscape, tease his dinner guests, badger his secretaries, dictate a history, make up a speech, write an article (that’s how he earns his living), refuse his breakfast because the jam has been left off the tray, refight the Battle of Bull Run, feed his fish, drink his brandy, fashion a “bellyband” to retrieve a particularly decrepit cigar, recite all of “Horatius at the Bridge,” take two baths—and await with noisy fortitude the day when he will save the world.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The American army that beat Hitler was thoroughly professional, but it didn’t start out that way. North Africa was where it learned the hard lessons, and none were harder than the disaster at Kasserine. This was the campaign that taught us how to fight a war.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In 1941, the president understood better than many Americans the man who was running Germany, and Hitler understood Roosevelt and his country better than we knew.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Britain’s poorest, most dismal African colony, and what he saw there fired him with a fervor that helped found the United Nations.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The claim that the United States and FDR watched the extermination of the Jews with such total indifference that they were actually accomplices doesn't hold up under scrutiny. </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The campaign to revise Hitler’s reputation has gone on for 50 years, but there’s another strategy now. Some of it is built on the work of the head of the Gestapo—who may have enjoyed a comfortable retirement in America.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A cameraman at Yalta tells what it was like to spend a few days in claustrophobic luxury with Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. and to be offered a job by Joseph Stalin.</span></p>
<p>Ike’s son, historian John Eisenhower, recalls attending meetings with the British wartime leader and reflects on his character and accomplishments.</p>
