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black gilt lettered cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first edition. first printing (nap). vii+277p. world history. politics. diplomacy. foreign policy. world war ii. ~ UNCODED AT LAST! The Ultra~Secret Wartime Cables and Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph V. Stalin and Winston S. Churchill. World War IT was nearly two years old when Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain, Marshall Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union and President Roosevelt of the United States began their critical correspondence. Starting in the summer of 1941, every letter and every cable was answered. ~OPERATION BARBAROSSA: on June 22, 1941 an army of three million German soldiers, supported by 1,000 tanks, thousands of self~propelled guns, 70,000 vehicles and a massive air armada attacked Russia. ~THE BAITLE OF BRITAIN: At the same time the German Luftwaffe was bombing London around the clock. A handful of courageous RAF fighter pilots were battling the German Air Force over England. It was at this time that Joseph Stalin was asking Churchill for immediate military aid. What is amazing is that by late summer help was on the way. Stalin writes Churchill on September 3, 1941: "Please accept my thanks for the promise to sell the Soviet Union 200 fighter planes in addition to the 200 promised earlier." The planes were delivered. On December 7, 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered the war. Here is the thinking and the planning that became the Grand Design of the War, each major event vividly portrayed in these letters of the Big Three~letters that describe invasions, exchanges of highly secret information and intelligence reports. It is a book that reads like a novel~except every word was written by Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, with the exception of hand~delivered position papers. It puts you on the front row of history. Read about the invasion plans and finally D~Day in Europe. Finally you are privy to the letters and cables concerning the sharp differences between Stalin (who backed the Pro~Soviet Provisional Government of Poland), and Roosevelt and Churchill (who backed the Polish Government in exile in London). The final correspondence foreshadows the coming of the cold war. THE SECRET HISTORY OF WORLD WAR IT is, without exaggeration, the greatest correspondence of the modem era.