I have finished Martin Gilbert's "Churchill, A Life." I have read "The Second World War," MacGregor Burns' "Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox," Meacham's "Franklin and Winston," Montefiore's biography of Stalin.
Winston Churchill's instantaneous, enduring decision to ally Britain with the Soviet Union after the launch of Operation Barbarossa was wrong. It was wrong then: for Britain, America, Poland, Eastern Europe, and Allied war strategy. It was wrong for the future: of post-war Germany, post-war Europe, post-war Britain, post-war America. It was wrong then and now, with foresight and in hindsight, with insight. It will always be wrong. It was good for the Soviet Union, though.
Winston Churchill's instantaneous, enduring decision to ally Britain with the Soviet Union after the launch of Operation Barbarossa was wrong. It was wrong then: for Britain, America, Poland, Eastern Europe, and Allied war strategy. It was wrong for the future: of post-war Germany, post-war Europe, post-war Britain, post-war America. It was wrong then and now, with foresight and in hindsight, with insight. It will always be wrong. It was good for the Soviet Union, though.
