Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union, 1940-45. (Reviews of Books).

Martin H. Folly. Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union, 1940-45. (Cold War History Series.) New York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. xi, 237. $65.00. ISBN 0-312-23114-S.

How to reconcile or explain what seemed British "appeasement" of the Soviet Union at the end of the Second World War with "the popular image of Churchillian 'toughness'" was the task Martin Folly set for himself. No easy job in this era of triumphalism that has followed the end of the Cold War. This study reminds us that foreign policy, in this case British foreign policy, is a moving target, ...

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