The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
by Giles Milton John Murray, 384 pages, £25
In an age of history-writing seemingly chock full of reassessments, regurgitations and ‘re-imaginings’, it is satisfying to review a book that is based on a genuinely new archival source. Giles Milton's The Stalin Affair uses as its core the papers of Kathleen Harriman – daughter of the flamboyant millionaire Averell Harriman – to give a precious insight into wartime inter-Allied relations. They tell a fascinating tale.
Kathleen – or Kathy, as she was known – was barely 23 and leading the life of an ordinary socialite, when her father called
