Tim Bouverie is one of our most popular chroniclers of the Second World War. A Fellow of St Antonys College, Oxford, he became a bestselling author with his debut, Appeasing Hitler . Now he has another Sunday Times bestseller on his hands. Allies at War tells the story of the improbable alliance between Russia, the United States and Britain that was forged by Churchill to stop Adolf Hitler an alliance that ultimately won the war and still has repercussions today. And yet it was a union divided by ideology and riven with mistrust. The German invasion of Russia and Japans attack on Pearl Harbor forced Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin tojoin forces, but they remained fierce rivals, disagreeing on strategy and the future of liberated Europe. Bouverie subjects the so-called special relationship between America and Britain (a term coined after the war by Churchill) to particular scrutiny. More of a pleading relationship, he suggests one American senator dismissed the Limeys as a bunch of cunning and scheming brutes. Bouverie has drawn on hundreds of archives, unpublished diaries and vivid first-hand accounts to offer a page-turning narrativeof the Second World War, and the Cold War that followed. The result is superb, according to fellow historian Tom Holland. Compellingly told, immensely wide-ranging andutterly fascinating.