Page-turner about pragmatic alliance that won World War 2
British, Russian and US leaders created a relationship through persistence and uncomfortable decisions
18 July 2024 - 05:00
It is often said that war can make strange bedfellows and never was this more evident than in the pact between Russia, Britain and the US that followed Adolph Hitler’s World War 2 invasion of Russia.
Casting aside a non-aggression pact between Hitler and Russian leader Joseph Stalin, the Nazis launched their surprise invasion on June 22 1941, in a campaign known as Operation Barbarossa...
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