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Article: Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940-1945.(Book review)
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- Parameters
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- September 22, 2006
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Allies in War: Britain and America Against the Axis Powers, 1940-1945. By Mark A. Stoler. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. 352 pages. $39.95.
Wartime coalitions and alliances are difficult to maintain. The challenge is for two or more nations to cooperate on the development of grand strategy, sometimes at the expense of their national strategy, to meet the needs of the alliance. Disagreements or criticisms within alliances and coalitions are as old as coalitions themselves. For a contemporary example, a minor controversy was created when a senior British officer shared some of his views on current US operations in Iraq in a recent Military Review article. Although ...