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It is often said that the special bond between Britain and the USA was forged in war between Roosevelt and Churchill. But the closer link in many ways was that between Churchill and Eisenhower, since it existed both in wartime 1941-1945 but also again in very different circumstances between 1951 and 1955, when Churchill was Prime Minister and Eisenhower was briefly the first Supreme Allied Commander NATO before going back to the USA to win the 1952 Presidential race and overlap in the White House with Churchill's peacetime premiership from 1953-1955. And in 1945-1951 Churchill by his speeches and Eisenhower by his tenure as first ever Supreme Allied Commander Europe were continuing to create the new and stable global world order that held until now.In other words theirs was a much longer relationship than that between FDR and Churchill, and spanning peace as well as war. And it was the Eisenhower and Churchill relationship that essentially created the world order that lasted down until current times. Churchill and Eisenhower can also be seen as a passing of the baton, from Britain as the fading superpower to the dynamic new world of the USA. Churchill's relationship with Eisenhower spans this transition perfectly and is the ideal prism through which to witness this change, in terms of how the balance between the UK and USA altered both as countries and in personal terms between the two men themselves

"One of Churchill's most controversial decisions during the Second World War was to switch SOE support in Yugoslavia in 1943 from the Cetniks loyal to the exiled Royal Government to backing Tito and his Communist Partisan guerrillas. It led to a Communist regime in Yugoslavia which lasted until Tito's death in 1980, and the nationalistic sentiments he had suppressed exploding into ethnic violence in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Until now the story has been that SOE was infiltrated by Communists in Cairo and that Fitzroy Maclean, Churchill's personal delegate to Tito, was hoodwinked by the Communist leader, and that Churchill was duped into abandoning the royalists. However, the recently deposited papers of Sir Bill Deakin, Churchill's former assistant and an SOE operative in Yugoslavia, reveal that the decision was based upon absolutely solid evidence and in Britain's best military interests. The official history of SOE in Yugoslavia was never written, but Deakin was the main adviser to the person deputed to write it - and Christopher Catherwood was the first person to examine the papers deposited in Washington. These papers reveal that Churchill made his decision based on evidence not just from SOE, but also from MI3, SIS and SIGINT at Bletchley Park. Christopher Catherwood can now demonstrate that one of Churchill's most significant and consequential decisions of the Second World War was not the terrible mistake that historians have portrayed it."--Publisher's description

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Suffragettes and Votes for Women (1903-1920) -- The Wobblies and Eugene Debs (1894 and1905) -- Churchill and the Tonypandy Riots (1910) -- Conscientious Objectors (1914-1973) -- Gandhi and Non-Violence (1930) -- Nazi Book Burnings (1933) -- The Jarrow March (1936) -- CND and the Greenham Women (1948-1983) -- Martin Luther King and Civil Rights (1955-1968) -- Anti-Apartheid and Stopping the Tours (1959) -- The Greensboro Soda Fountain Sit-in (1960) -- César Chávez and the Grapes of Wrath (1962) -- The Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1964) -- Women's Liberation (1967) -- The Yippies and Chicago City (1968) -- Stonewall to Gay Marriage (1969) -- Woodstock and the Counterculture (1969) -- Greenpeace: Saving the Planet? (1969) -- The Miners' Strikes and the Battle of Orgreave (1973) -- The Nestlé Boycott and Beyond (1977) -- The Dirty Movement and Hunger Strikes (1978/1980) -- The Olympic Boycotts (1980/1984) -- Solidarity and the Path to Freedom (1980) -- Brave New People and Pro-Life Activism (1984) -- The Two Intifadas (1987 and 2000) -- Tiananmen Square and the June 4th Incident (1989) -- Poll Tax Protests (1989) -- The Prague Spring and Velvet Revolution (1989) -- Ukraine from the Orange Revolution to War (1991) -- Be Careful What You Wish For: The Arab Spring to the Arab Winter (2011) -- Occupy (2011) -- Je Suis Charlie (2015) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- By Christopher Catherwood -- Advertisement -- Copyright.