Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence: Alliance Emerging, October 1933-November 1942
Volume one of the complete wartime correspondence of the two great statesmen of the twentieth century

This three-volume work is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These volumes bring together every written communication that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt during their years of wartime leadership, providing rare perspective on the politics and strategy of the Second World War as conducted by two of history’s most charismatic men. Few other world leaders have communicated so regularly and on such an informal and often personal level. The topics covered in their correspondence range from the fate of nations and the shape of the postwar world to the mixing of martinis, details of fishing trips, and the swapping of doggerel verse.

A major scholarly contribution, Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence draws on exhaustive research in American and British archives and include telegrams, letters, memos, and scrawled notes as well as transcripts made of Churchill and Roosevelt’s telephone conversations and a number of message drafts and unsent cables that offer unique insights into the thinking of the two leaders. Warren Kimball provides invaluable commentaries throughout, giving the context of specific documents and providing a chronology of the period.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence: Alliance Emerging, October 1933-November 1942
Volume one of the complete wartime correspondence of the two great statesmen of the twentieth century

This three-volume work is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These volumes bring together every written communication that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt during their years of wartime leadership, providing rare perspective on the politics and strategy of the Second World War as conducted by two of history’s most charismatic men. Few other world leaders have communicated so regularly and on such an informal and often personal level. The topics covered in their correspondence range from the fate of nations and the shape of the postwar world to the mixing of martinis, details of fishing trips, and the swapping of doggerel verse.

A major scholarly contribution, Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence draws on exhaustive research in American and British archives and include telegrams, letters, memos, and scrawled notes as well as transcripts made of Churchill and Roosevelt’s telephone conversations and a number of message drafts and unsent cables that offer unique insights into the thinking of the two leaders. Warren Kimball provides invaluable commentaries throughout, giving the context of specific documents and providing a chronology of the period.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence: Alliance Emerging, October 1933-November 1942

Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence: Alliance Emerging, October 1933-November 1942

by Warren F. Kimball (Editor)
Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence: Alliance Emerging, October 1933-November 1942

Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence: Alliance Emerging, October 1933-November 1942

by Warren F. Kimball (Editor)

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Volume one of the complete wartime correspondence of the two great statesmen of the twentieth century

This three-volume work is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These volumes bring together every written communication that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt during their years of wartime leadership, providing rare perspective on the politics and strategy of the Second World War as conducted by two of history’s most charismatic men. Few other world leaders have communicated so regularly and on such an informal and often personal level. The topics covered in their correspondence range from the fate of nations and the shape of the postwar world to the mixing of martinis, details of fishing trips, and the swapping of doggerel verse.

A major scholarly contribution, Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence draws on exhaustive research in American and British archives and include telegrams, letters, memos, and scrawled notes as well as transcripts made of Churchill and Roosevelt’s telephone conversations and a number of message drafts and unsent cables that offer unique insights into the thinking of the two leaders. Warren Kimball provides invaluable commentaries throughout, giving the context of specific documents and providing a chronology of the period.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691628219
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/08/2015
Series: Princeton Legacy Library , #2008
Edition description: Three Volumes
Pages: 844
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Warren F. Kimball is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University and a leading authority on the Second World War and American foreign policy and diplomacy. His books include Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War and The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (Princeton).

Table of Contents

  • Frontmatter, pg. i
  • Contents, pg. vii
  • List of Maps, pg. ix
  • List of Photographs, pg. x
  • Preface, pg. xi
  • Acknowledgments, pg. xiii
  • Editorial Procedures, pg. xvii
  • Bibliographical Note, pg. xxvii
  • Initials of Message Drafters, pg. xxxii
  • Digest of Documents, pg. xxxiii
  • Addenda, pg. clxv
  • Introduction Churchill and Roosevelt: Their Relationship, Their Correspondence, pg. 1
  • I. Alliance Emerging. Correspondence: October 8, 1933 - November 14, 1942, pg. 21
  • Lend-Lease, pg. 87
  • The Mediterranean Theater and the Balkans, pg. 144
  • ULTRA Intelligence, pg. 214
  • The Atlantic Conference (RIVIERA), pg. 227
  • The United States and Japan, pg. 274
  • The First Washington Conference (ARCADIA), pg. 292
  • India, pg. 373
  • Organizing the Pacific Theater, pg. 409
  • Early Plans for a Cross-Channel Invasion, pg. 458
  • The Second Washington Conference (ARGONAUT), pg. 513
  • Strategic Bombing, pg. 596
  • Politics in French North Africa, pg. 634
  • Addenda and Errata to the Paperback Edition, pg. 675
  • Backmatter, pg. 677



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“I recommend this work unreservedly. Scouring American and British archives and even finding some German intercepts, Kimball has done an outstanding job of making this collection definitive. Because so much of the story of World War II is touched on in these messages, writers on all phases of the war—political, military, personalities—will need this compilation. Accompanying the documents is a running commentary that provides the necessary perspective for the reader. The identification of individuals, events, and unfamiliar terms is more than generous.”—Forrest C. Pogue, biographer of George C. Marshall

“The judicious and incisive headnotes preceding each message provide a masterly running analysis of the military, diplomatic, and economic debates. . . . [This is] an exemplary work of editing and annotation.”—Arthur J. Schlesinger, The Atlantic

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