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This country is at war with Germany. We shall go on to the end.

I remember the sheets of flame which came up and almost blinded us from our guns.

The relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill was one of the defining

partnerships of the Second World War. At the centre of the Anglo-American Alliance, these two men

worked together to plan invasions, manage coalition warfare and ultimately help bring about

Allied victory. It was a relationship shaped by war, but one that would continue into the uncertain years that followed.

It's the subject of a new book, Ike and Winston, by Jonathan Jordan,

which explores not just the strategy and politics, but the personal bond between the two men,

from the pressures of wartime leadership through to the early Cold War.

Jonathan, we only have so much time, so I thought we'd focus perhaps on the two men's relationship

with a particular emphasis on Eisenhower during the Second World War.

For people unfamiliar with Churchill and Eisenhower, they were from very different backgrounds.

They were. Eisenhower came from a,

I guess you call like lower middle class family in Kansas. He was born in very poor circumstances

in Denison, Texas. He was several years younger than Churchill. By the time Eisenhower got to college at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,

Churchill was a world famous author, military man, journalist, escaping from a borough prison camp.

He was a world celebrity when Eisenhower was just learning about the trade. In fact, Churchill had shaped World War I at the time

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