Churchill's Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire, 1945
by Jonathan Walker
Paperback
208 Pages
2017
As the war in Europe entered its final months, the world 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 July 1, 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 World War II drew to a close and the Allies’ mistrust of the Soviet Union that would blossom into the Cold War.
