The Kremlin letters : Stalin's wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt / edited by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechtnov ; with the assistance of Iskander Magadeyev and Olga Kucherenko.

Strange encounters : (June to September 1941) -- 'Two relatively unrelated wars' : (September to December 1941) -- 'I can handle Stalin' : (December 1941 to April 1942) -- Molotov the go-between (April to July 1942) -- Churchill's 'Lump of ice' (August to October 1942) -- Casablanca: a table just for two : (November 1942 to January 1943) -- Second front when? : (February to April 1943) -- Poles apart : (April to July 1943) -- Fighting back: Ukraine and Italy : (August to September 1943) -- Face to face: Moscow and Tehran : (October to December 1943) -- The spirit of Tehran evaporates : (January to March 1944) -- 'Force and facts' : (March to June 1944) -- From east and west : (June to September 1944) -- 'Only the three of us' : (October to December 1944) -- Yalta and after : (January to April 1945).

Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume--the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration--the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical context. Ranging from intimate personal greetings to weighty salvos about diplomacy and strategy, this book offers fascinating new revelations of the political machinations and human stories behind the Allied triumvirate. Edited and narrated by two of the world's leading scholars on World War II diplomacy and based on a decade of research in British, American, and newly available Russian archives, this crucial addition to wartime scholarship illuminates an alliance that really worked while exposing its fractious limits and the issues and egos that set the stage for the Cold War that followed.