Tim Bouverie

Roosevelt and Hopkins

An Intimate History

by Robert E. Sherwood

“Sherwood went through all of Hopkins’s papers and used them to write this biography, which is extremely document-heavy. It uses an enormous amount of first-hand material, often just quoted in large chunks with all Hopkins’s thoughts, to paint the closest thing we have to an insider’s account of the Roosevelt White House at war.” — via Interview, June 2026

Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946

by W. Averell Harriman

“The book is based on extensive use of Harriman’s notes after all the conferences he attended, which was most of them. It’s based on his notes after his meetings with Churchill, after his meetings with Roosevelt and after his meetings in the Kremlin with Stalin—which were many and extensive, even before he was American ambassador to Moscow.” — via Interview, June 2026

Vichy France

Old Guard New Order, 1940-1944

by Robert Paxton

“They also thought they might be able to get this while the war was going on. They thought that by collaborating with the Germans, they were doing the most patriotic thing for France. This was conclusively shown by Paxton in what remains easily one of the most important secondary books on the Second World War.” — via Interview, June 2026

In Command of History

Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War

by David Reynolds

“Reynolds did an enormous amount of research, and this is a book which, unsurprisingly, won the Wolfson History Prize.” — via Interview, June 2026