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Contents
List of Maps
List of Photographs
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: From Blenheim Palace to Buffalo Bill
Chapter Two: The "Tall Yankee" and "A Great Lusty Youth"
Chapter Three: Cuba and Beyond
Chapter Four: "How Little Time Remains!"
Chapter Five: Lecturer in the United States:"The Stormy Ocean of American Thought and Discussion"
Chapter Six: "Dark Would Be the Day"
Chapter Seven: Churchill at War, and a Neutral America
Chapter Eight: "The Future Destiny of the English-speaking Peoples"
Chapter Nine: 1918: "Come Over as Quickly as Possible"
Chapter Ten: "America Did Not Make Good"
Chapter Eleven: "We Do Not Wish to Put Ourselves in the Power of the United States"
Chapter Twelve: "United to Us by the Crimson Thread of Friendship"
Chapter Thirteen: Between Two Visits
Chapter Fourteen: "There's No Baloney About Him at All"
Chapter Fifteen: "Why Do Our Two Countries Not Take Counsel Together?"
Chapter Sixteen: "A Union of Spirit"
Chapter Seventeen: Road to War
Chapter Eighteen: "Hope Burden Will Not Be Made Too Heavy for Us to Bear"
Chapter Nineteen: "I Shall Drag the United States In"
Chapter Twenty: "Until the Old World -- and the New -- Can Join Hands"
Chapter Twenty-One: "We Are No Longer Alone"
Chapter Twenty-Two: Five Months of Anguish
Chapter Twenty-Three: "A Means of Waging More Effective War"
Chapter Twenty-Four: "American Blood Flowed in My Veins"
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Washington War Conference: "All in It Together"
Chapter Twenty-Six: "Okay Full Blast"
Chapter Twenty-Seven: "The Tact and Consideration Which the Harmony of the Common Cause Requires"
Chapter Twenty-Eight: "If We Are Together Nothing Is Impossible"
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Toward Overlord: "Our Band of Brothers"
Chapter Thirty: From Normandy to Quebec
Chapter Thirty-One: "It Grieves Me Very Much to See Signs of Our Drifting Apart"
Chapter Thirty-Two: Malta, Yalta and Beyond
Chapter Thirty-Three: "We Must Make Sure That the United States Are with Us"
Chapter Thirty-Four: "Britain, Though a Smaller Power Than the United States, Had Much to Give"
Chapter Thirty-Five: Fulton and Its Aftermath
Chapter Thirty-Six: "I Have Always Worked for Friendship with the United States"
Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Indefatigable Traveler
Chapter Thirty-Eight: "I Marvel at America's Altruism, Her Sublime Disinterestedness"
Chapter Thirty-Nine: "We Must Not Cast Away a Single Hope, However Slender"
Chapter Forty: "Never Be Separated from the Americans"
Chapter Forty-One: Final Decade: "I Delight in My American Ancestry"
Churchill's American Visits
Maps
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
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Christopher Gagliardi
reviewed Churchill and America on November 18, 2012
Churchill and America
Over one half of this book focuses on the World War II years. Martin Gilbert has a style of "only the facts". There is little probing beneath the surface as the book quotes Churchill enormously and also uses letters sent to Churchill. I was, for instance, hoping to find some enlightenment as to why Churchill did not attend Roosevelt's funeral, but found virtually none. Churchill travelled continuously during the war years - so why did he not go to the U.S. to at least meet Roosevelt's successor Truman? I did find some interesting speculation on this in Jon Meacham's Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship.
"Churchill and America" makes for highly interesting reading because the story in itself is great history. But there are still many things missing. Eleanor Roosevelt is absent and Clementine is rarely present.
Martin Gilbert follows the path of many historians in the assumption that Roosevelt caved in at Yalta. He does not mention the concessions that Stalin gave about the U.N. or that Poland was already a "fait accompli" for Stalin by that time (there were millions of Russian troops in Poland by January 1945).
My favourite quote (in a telegram to Truman): "An iron curtain is drawn upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind this enormous Muscovite advance into the centre of Europe which will isolate us from Poland".
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