This work provides a documentary record of the correspondence, official and private, between Harry S Truman and Winston Churchill, from Trumans accession to the presidency in April 1945. Official communications between the two resumed during Churchills second premiership 1951-1955 and more personal correspondence would continue into Churchills retirement. Subjects of note range from events surrounding German surrender to the Cold War.Completing previously published wartime correspondence between Churchill and Roosevelt up to the latters death in 1945, this material records the thoughts and decisions of Truman and Churchill from April 12, 1945, nearly a month before Germanys surrender, until Churchills defeat in the General Election in late July at Potsdam, shortly before the dramatic close of the Pacific war against Japan little more than a fortnight later.
