Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 · Scott Bury

The Impossible Alliance, Part 1: Episode 94

February 16, 2026·33 min·3 clips

Churchill smiles at news of Hitler invading the USSR, seeing it as Britain's best chance to turn the war.

Host Scott Burry interviews author Giles Milton about his book 'The Stalin Affair,' which explores the unlikely and fraught WWII alliance between Winston Churchill's Britain, Franklin Roosevelt's America, and Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. The discussion focuses on the personalities, diplomatic miscalculations, and pragmatic decisions that held this 'impossible alliance' together.

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