Churchill's Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire 1945
Churchill's Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire 1945 by Jonathan Walker
English | 4 May 2017 | ASIN: B00FD3N786 | 192 Pages | AZW3 | 1.88 MB
English | 4 May 2017 | ASIN: B00FD3N786 | 192 Pages | AZW3 | 1.88 MB
As the war in Europe entered its final months, we teetered on the edge of a Third World War. While Soviet forces smashed their way into Berlin, Churchill ordered British military planners to prepare the top-secret Operation Unthinkable - the plan for an Allied attack on the Soviet Union - on 1 July 1945. The plan called for the use of the atomic bomb and Nazi troops if necessary: more than merely controversial, as the extent of the Holocaust was becoming clear.
A haunting study of the war that so nearly was, Walker offers a fascinating insight into the upheaval as the Second World War drew to a close and the Allies' mistrust of the Soviet Union that would blossom into the Cold War.