Allies at War: The Rivals Who Defeated Hitler Wallace Collection Highlights from La Capponcina

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Allies at War: The Rivals Who Defeated Hitler Wallace Collection Highlights from La CapponcinaAfter the fall of France in June 1940, only Britain stood between Hitler and total victory. Desperate for allies, Winston Churchill did everything he could to bring the United States into the conflict, drive the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany apart and persuade neutral countries to resist German domination. By 1942, after the German invasion of Russia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the British Soviet American alliance was in place. Yet it