Fighting with Allies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Prologue

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 1-10

3. ‘You must not speak of us as cousins’

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 11-20

4. ‘We will get nothing from the Americans but words’

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 21-26

5. ‘In the long history of the world this is a thing to do now’

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 27-33

6. ‘Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars’

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 34-42

7. ‘The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States’

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 43-48

8. ‘The only way in which we could possibly lose this war’

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 49-55

9. ‘My God! Now they’ve started shooting’

   • Robin Renwick

   Pages 56-62

10. ‘This is much the greatest thing we have ever attempted’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 63-69

11. ‘Even splendid victories and widening opportunities do not bring us together on strategy’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 70-78

12. ‘Ike and I were poles apart when it came to the conduct of the war’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 79-84

13. ‘The greatest American friend we have ever known’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 85-92

14. ‘I must always know what is in the documents I sign’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 93-98

15. ‘The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 99-104

16. ‘The Jews are a religion, not a nation or a race’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 105-107

17. ‘I think it improbable that the Americans would become involved’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 108-113

18. ‘All the passion of a woodchuck chewing a carrot’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 114-119

19. ‘The timely use of atomic weapons should be considered’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 120-124

20. ‘What could be more earthy than coal or steel?’

    • Robin Renwick

    Pages 125-128

It was Winston Churchill who, in his speech at Fulton, Missouri, advocated a 'special relationship between the British Commonwealth...and the United States...the continuance of intimate relationships between our military advisers, leading to the common study of potential dangers'. Through the eyes of Churchill, Roosevelt and their successors, Sir Robin Renwick traces the development of the Anglo-American relationship since the desperate summer of 1940 and the part it played in the shaping of the post-war world. Detecting once again a whiff of the 1930s in the air, Sir Robin concludes that, as one of the ties that bind Europe and North America, the relationship remains an important one, and not only to Britain and the United States. There are many on both sides of the Atlantic who will think that the world would have been poorer without it. Nor has the world yet assumed so secure and predictable a form as to render it redundant.

• development
• Europe
• state
• war

Of the former Ambassador, Sir Robin Renwick:

'Ambassador extraordinaire.' - Guardian

'Simply the best.' - Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, US Department of State

'A remarkable Ambassador.' - General Colin Powell

'Fighting with Allies matches the outstanding service of the author as one of Britain's most distinguished ambassadors to Washington. Sir Robin explores with erudition and flair the subtle and complex special relationship between the United States and Britain, so indispensable during the Cold War. He shows its relevance to the post-Cold War world as well as the need for adaptation. I greatly enjoyed this book.' - Henry A. Kissinger

'The Anglo-American alliance is the rock on which dictators have foundered throughout this century. A great story.' - President George Bush

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