Previous edition :1996.

"You must not speak of us as cousins" -- "We will get nothing from the Americans but words" -- "In the long history of the world this is a thing to do now" -- "Your boys are not doing to be send into any foreign wars" -- "The prime minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the president of the United States" -- "The only way in which we could possibly lose this war" -- ""My God! Now they've started shooting!" -- "This is much the greatest thing we have ever attempted" -- "Even splendid victories and widening opportunities do not bring us together on strategy" -- "Ike and I were poles apart when it came to the conduct of the war" -- "The greatest American friend we have ever known" -- "I must always know what is in the documents I sign" -- "The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate" -- "The Jews are a religion, not a nation or race" -- "I think it improbable that the Americans would become involved" -- "All the passion of a woodchuck chewing a carrot" -- " The timely use of atomic weapons should be considered" -- "What could be more earthly than coal or steel?" -- "Never had so few lost so much so stupidly and so fast" -- "The most powerful of the anticolonial powers" -- "United States policy is exaggeratedly moral, at least where non-American interests are concerned" -- "The U.S. are being very difficult" -- "Nothing justifies double-crossing us" -- "We can furnish a lot of fig leaves" -- " If anything goes wrong, you may be sure that Mr. Dulles will place the blame elsewhere" -- "They have complete confidence in me" -- "It is gong to be a cold winter" -- "Thank God they've turned back, just before the prime minister gave way" -- The lady has already been violated in public" -- "This frightful tangle of fear and suspicion" -- "I don't think we are in for a very happy four days" -- "We do not suffer in the world from such an excess of friends" -- "A couple who have been told by everyone that they should be in love" -- "He wanted to establish his own special relationship" -- "Your problems will be our problems, and when you look for friends, we will be there" -- "That little ice-cold bunch of land down there" -- "Doing the work of the free world" -- "The focus of evil in the modern world" -- "The objective is to have a world without war" -- "No time to go wobbly" -- "All necessary means" -- The special relationship -- Britain, the United States, and Europe.

"There is a great myth that Britain and America have always been the closest of allies, standing side by side in times of trouble, helping each other unquestionably and with a shared sense of united destiny. In his grand Fighting with Allies, former British ambassador Sir Robin Renwick illuminates as never before the tensions and battles that have defined the Anglo-American "special relationship."

"Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Renwick goes behind the scenes to give us dramatic and revealing portraits of the personalities and events that have shaped the two nations. Drawing liberally on first-person accounts, private letters, and diaries, Renwick has crafted a narrative that manages to be intimate and personal even as it takes us through some of the most exciting and spectacular events of the past century and a half. Renwick's cast of characters is astonishing, and among those we meet are Rear Admiral George Cockburn, who burned the White House to the ground during the War of 1812; Theodore Roosevelt, who found intellectual inspiration in Rudyard Kipling; Woodrow Wilson, who declared America "too proud to fight"; Lloyd George, who patronized the Americans even as he began to realize that they would become the greater power; Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (himself half American), who brought the alliance together to face the greatest threat the world had ever known; Harry Truman, who found himself caught in a delicate balancing act between Stalin and Churchill; Clement Attlee, who defeated Churchill for the prime ministership and then, with Truman and Dean Acheson, helped preside over the formation of NATO and the reluctant transformation of British Palestine into the state of Israel; Dwight Eisenhower, whom Churchill blamed for the failure of Allied forces to occupy Berlin and Prague; Anthony Eden, who doubted America's capacities in international affairs; John F.

Kennedy, whose close friendship with Harold Macmillan brought the alliance to a new stage; Harold Wilson, accused of servility toward Lyndon Johnson, whose Vietnam nightmare threatened relations; Richard Nixon, who correctly predicted Wilson's downfall only to find that Edward Heath saw British interests to be more with Europe than with America; Jimmy Carter, whose own foreign policy was crippled by internal debates and debacles; Margaret Thatcher, who found a soul mate in Ronald Reagan and helped the alliance reach its strongest point in decades; George Bush, who shifted America's focus from Britain to Europe; and Bill Clinton and John Major, both confronted with a bloody war in the Balkans and unsure how to deal with it."--Jacket.

Item with barcode 013561 gift of Lord Renwick. Title page inscribed by the author.