Churchill and Russia: How Britain's Wartime Leader Contained the Soviet Union and Won the Peace

A timely, magisterial new history of Churchill's life and politics, focusing on his dealings with Russia and the Soviet Union.

After his finest hour, winning the Second World War, Winston Churchill and his allies Joseph Stalin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt carved up Eastern Europe. The settlement they reached, later referred to by Churchill as 'the Iron Curtain', would utterly change the course of the twentieth century, creating a world of two competing superpowers, which led to the so-calle...