War and Diplomacy uses documents from Stalin's personal files, now kept at the Archives of the President of the Russian Federation, in order to study the history of the creation of the anti-Hitler coalition, a short-lived but grand alliance of States and peoples that saved mankind from the threat of enslavement during the Second World War. The documents from Stalin's files are published in full, except for certain pieces of protocol nature, and most of them are published for the first time. They contain many revelations and give an idea of the mechanisms of decision-making within the Soviet Government and amongst its key figures of the time, giving an unprecedented insight into the intensive and dramatic negotiations which were taking place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, and also on a larger scale, between the USSR, the USA and Great Britain.