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Giles Milton - The Stalin Affair - The Impossible Alliance that Won the War

In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, shattering what Stalin had considered an ironclad partnership with the Fuhrer. The Allied reaction was twofold: delight that there was now a second front, and fear the Red Army would be defeated. In the wake of the Nazi invasion, writer and historian, Giles Milton, explores how a select team of British and Americans, by befriending Stalin, could keep the fraught Allied alliance on track and forge a path to victory.