RaveThe Telegraph (UK)An ambitiously all-encompassing study ... Although Allies in War rightly concentrates on the decision-making of the Big Three—Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin—that story has been told well and often. Where Bouverie is especially strong is in describing the much less familiar struggles going on elsewhere, which constantly feed back into the narrative of the Big Three’s interaction ... Bouverie commendably covers China and Vichy and all the profound diplomatic consequences they entailed for the Alliance ... Bouverie has not only been diligent in covering all the publicly available sources concerning the major players, but he has also worked in the papers from 100 private collections, those of foreign ministers, ambassadors, civil servants, emissaries, translators and observers ... Bouverie presents his new evidence from these fresh sources in an agreeably witty style, with vivid pen-portraits of the various eccentric figures that diplomacy tends to throw up, especially in wartime.
