144.Combined Chiefs of Staff Minutes, May 14, 1943, FRUS: Conferences at Washington and Quebec, 1943, document 35; Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), 5.
145.O’Brien, How the War Was Won.
146.Russell Weigley, The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973), 280.
147.See Ian Toll, The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (New York: Norton, 2015).
148.Overy, Why the Allies Won, 18.
149.Kennedy, Victory at Sea; Millett, Maslowski, and Feis, For the Common Defense, 391–95.
150.On this subject, see Max Hastings, Bomber Command (New York: Dial, 1979).
151.O’Brien, How the War Was Won, 484.
152.Weigley, American Way of War, 240.
153.O’Brien, How the War Was Won, 317, 350–51; Overy, Blood and Ruins, 584–86; Conrad Crane, American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016), 48.
154.O’Brien, How the War Was Won, 373.
155.“Bohlen Minutes,” November 30, 1943, FRUS: Cairo and Tehran, document 373.
156.Churchill to Eden, February 8, 1945, FO-954-10B-415, TNA.
157.Dallek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 434.
158.Warren Kimball, Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War (New York: Morrow, 1997), 11.
159.Michael Fullilove, Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World (New York: Penguin, 2013), 100–101.
160.Winston Churchill, Press Conference, January 24, 1943, FRUS: Washington and Casablanca, document 395; Memorandum by the United States Chiefs of Staff, January 14, 1942, FRUS: Washington and Casablanca, document 121.
161.Kimball, ed., Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence; also Maurice Matloff and Edwin Snell, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941–1942 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959).
162.Roosevelt to Marshall, King, and Hopkins, July 15, 1942, Box 4, Safe File, FDRL.
163.Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (New York: Holt, 2013), 632.
164.Tami Davis Biddle, “Democratic Leaders and Strategies of Coalition Warfare: Churchill and Roosevelt in World War II,” in Brands, ed., New Makers; Richard Leighton and Robert Coakley, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940–1943 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955); Alan Bath, Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998).
165.Paul Kennedy, “History from the Middle: The Case of the Second World War,” Journal of Military History, January 2010, 35–51.
166.Weigley, American Way of War, 343.
167.See Milovan Djilas’s Conversations at Stalin’s Dacha, June 5, 1944, CWIHP.
168.Henry Morgenthau, diary entry, November 17, 1942, Morgenthau Presidential Diaries, FDRL; David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov, The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), 13.
169.Biddle, “Democratic Leaders,” 588.
170.Stalin to Roosevelt, June 11, 1943, Box 8, Map Room Papers, FDRL; Warren Kimball, The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), 30–33.
171.Maurice Matloff, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943–1944 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1994).
172.“Bohlen Minutes,” November 30, 1943, FRUS: Cairo and Tehran, document 373; Crane, American Airpower, 48.
