Tony McCulloch's latest book out now!

We are delighted to announce that Dr Tony McCulloch's monograph - Tacit Alliance: Franklin Roosevelt and the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' before Churchill, 1937-1939 - has just been published by Edinburgh University Press.

The book argues that the origins of the wartime 'special relationship' between Britain and the United States that was lauded by Winston Churchill are largely to be found in the foreign policy of President Franklin Roosevelt, especially in the years 1937-1939. The book also argues that Canada, especially Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, played an important part in this policy.  The book shows that the German embassy in Washington was well aware of FDR's aim of achieving a 'tacit alliance' with Britain as part of an international 'peace front' against Nazi Germany, despite the prevalence of isolationism in the United States, but Hitler and the Nazi leadership in Berlin believed that the US could be discounted as long as the British Government, led by Neville Chamberlain, pursued its policy of appeasement.

Professor John Dumbrell (Durham University), an authority on Anglo-American relations, has reviewed the book as follows: 'A work of outstanding quality. Tony McCulloch's book is based on painstaking original research. It successfully engages with, and modifies, many conventional understandings of US-UK relations in the 1930s. McCulloch is a world-class expert on this subject, and this will become a classic text.'  

Congratulations are in order!

Links:

Dr Tony McCulloch | academic profile

'Tacit Alliance: Franklin Roosevelt and the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' before Churchill, 1937-1939'  | link to book publisher's webpage

Images:

[top] Cover of 'Tacit Alliance: Franklin Roosevelt and the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' before Churchill, 1937-1939' © Edinburgh University Press

[bottom] Photograph of Dr McCulloch