The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance 1937-41: A Study in Competititve Co-Operation

by David Reynolds

Book by Reynolds, David

397 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

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A Professor of International History and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He was awarded a scholarship to study at Dulwich College, then Cambridge and Harvard universities. He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Nebraska and Oklahoma, as well as at Nihon University in Tokyo and Sciences Po in Paris. He was awarded the Wolfson History Prize, 2004, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. He teaches and lectures both undergraduates and postgraduates at Cambridge University, specialising in the two world wars and the Cold War. Since October 2013 he has been Chairman of the History Faculty at Cambridge.

Reviews

[George · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent study of how the US and Great Britain, through many ups and downs, gradually grew closer in the face of the growth of fascism and war. Detailed, nuanced, arguments well-documented.