Fighting with Allies: America and Britain in Peace and War

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Prologue....Pages 1-10
‘You must not speak of us as cousins’....Pages 11-20
‘We will get nothing from the Americans but words’....Pages 21-26
‘In the long history of the world this is a thing to do now’....Pages 27-33
‘Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars’....Pages 34-42
‘The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States’....Pages 43-48
‘The only way in which we could possibly lose this war’....Pages 49-55
‘My God! Now they’ve started shooting’....Pages 56-62
‘This is much the greatest thing we have ever attempted’....Pages 63-69
‘Even splendid victories and widening opportunities do not bring us together on strategy’....Pages 70-78
‘Ike and I were poles apart when it came to the conduct of the war’....Pages 79-84
‘The greatest American friend we have ever known’....Pages 85-92
‘I must always know what is in the documents I sign’....Pages 93-98
‘The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate’....Pages 99-104
‘The Jews are a religion, not a nation or a race’....Pages 105-107
‘I think it improbable that the Americans would become involved’....Pages 108-113
‘All the passion of a woodchuck chewing a carrot’....Pages 114-119
‘The timely use of atomic weapons should be considered’....Pages 120-124
‘What could be more earthy than coal or steel?’....Pages 125-128
‘Never had so few lost so much so stupidly and so fast’....Pages 129-133
‘The most powerful of the anti-colonial powers’....Pages 134-138
‘United States policy is exaggeratedly moral, at least where non-American interests are concerned’....Pages 139-145
‘The U.S. are being very difficult’....Pages 146-153
‘Nothing justifies double-crossing us’....Pages 154-158
‘We can furnish a lot of fig leaves’....Pages 159-163
‘If anything goes wrong you may be sure that Mr Dulles will place the blame elsewhere’....Pages 164-168
‘They have complete confidence in me’....Pages 169-173
‘It is going to be a cold winter’....Pages 174-178
‘Thank God they’ve turned back, just before the Prime Minister gave way’....Pages 179-182
‘The lady has already been violated in public’....Pages 183-187
‘This frightful tangle of fear and suspicion’....Pages 188-191
‘I don’t think we are in for a very happy four days’....Pages 192-201
‘We do not suffer in the world from such an excess of friends’....Pages 202-205
‘A couple who have been told by everyone that they should be in love’....Pages 206-213
‘He wanted to establish his own special relationship’....Pages 214-219
‘Your problems will be our problems and when you look for friends, we will be there’....Pages 220-224
‘That little ice-cold bunch of land down there’....Pages 225-230
‘Doing the work of the free world’....Pages 231-238
‘The focus of evil in the modern world’....Pages 239-245
‘The objective is to have a world without war’....Pages 246-256
‘No time to go wobbly’....Pages 257-265
‘All necessary means’....Pages 266-270
The Special Relationship....Pages 271-277
Britain, the United States and Europe....Pages 278-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-315