Best remembered today for the dramatic announcement at its conclusion of the policy demanding the “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers, the ten-day meeting between the British and American high commands in Casablanca in January 1943 has been described by Rick Atkinson as “a hinge on which world history would swing for the next half century.” Surprisingly, then, James B. Conroy’s is the first book-length account devoted to the conference. This may be the result of the perception of such meetings as
