Andrew Buchanan is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Vermont. He received his PhD and MA in History from Rutgers University, New Jersey, and earned his BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford. Buchanan has taught American history, global history, and various military history courses. He has published articles on various aspects of the diplomatic, military, and cultural history of World War II in publications including the Journal of Contemporary History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, and Global War Studies.
Introduction
1. 'The president's personal policy'
2. The decision for Torch
3. Keeping Spain out of the war: Washington's appeasement of Franco
4. Torch, Darlan, and the French Maghreb
5. 'The intricacies of colonial rule'
6. 'Senior partners?'
7. 'An investment for the future'
8. The Tehran Conference and the Anglo-American struggle over the invasion of southern France
9. Helping De Gaulle get his 'talons pretty deeply dug into France'
10. Italy 'enters the postwar period'
11. Spain, Wolfram, and the 'liberal turn'
12. The Culbertson Mission and the open door
13. 'Balkan-phobia?' The United States, Yugoslavia, and Greece, 1940-5
14. 'We have become Mediterraneanites'.
