The improbable alliance that defeated Hitler
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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. To what extent does a course of history turn on the force of individual personalities? It's a question that looms large when examining the unlikely alliance forged between Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, a partnership that ultimately triumphed over the Axis powers in the Second World War. In this episode, Danny Byrd speaks with Tim Bouvery to explore the complex, often uneasy rapport between Winston Churchill. Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. He delves into the secret suspicions and towering ambitions that defined this remarkable chapter in wartime diplomacy. Tim, your book digs into the complicated and often tense relationship between the so-called big three, and many people listening will be aware of them. But for the benefit of those who might not be that familiar, could you provide a brief sketch of each leader? Well, these are obviously some of the three most familiar and important figures in history, but their alliance during the Second World War, Danny, was both improbable and incongruous.
Churchill and Roosevelt are from the Democratic West. Stalin is a Marxist revolutionary who has committed innumerable atrocities within his own country, the Soviet Union, to come to power, supposedly in his mind, to consolidate his power and to preserve himself in power. And beyond that, he has in fact allied himself with Hitler prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in August of 1939, dividing up Eastern Europe for the benefit of him and the Nazi state. So the idea of Stalin, this
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