Scope and Contents Letter from Churchill to Clementine begun in December 1941 while he was at sea aboard HMS Duke of York and ended from the White House, while he was visiting President Franklin Roosevelt after the United States entered the war. Subjects include: the difficulty of the journey; bad news from Hong Kong and Malaya [later Malaysia], with Allied forces retreating to defend Singapore; the sinking of a number of U-boats off Gibraltar; the successful advance of General Sir Claude Auchinleck...

Scope and Contents Top copy and carbon copy of a letter from Churchill to Clementine from the British Embassy, Cairo [Egypt] on subjects including: the need for new commanders in the Middle East; Churchill's gratitude to Field Marshal Jan Smuts for his support and his distress at the death of Lieutenant-General William Gott; his view of Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery; bad appointments made by General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief Middle East]; Churchill's visits to see the armoured brigades;...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Allied mass bombing strategy; the Allied alliance with the Soviet Union; the battle in Libya and Egypt; plans for a second front; the position of France; the campaign in Italy; the war in the Pacific; Churchill's speeches; the Allied landings in Normandy and the progress of the campaign in Western Europe; the Russian advance towards Berlin; the Yalta Conference; Germany's surrender; the Labour Party's victory in the British General Election; the use of the atomic bomb and...