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On Boxing Day, 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King met at the White House in Washington, D.C. for discussions about the war situation. This was the first time that the three leaders had met together. While Churchill and Roosevelt would famously form a close friendship during the war, at this point in their relationship, as Neville Thompson observes in The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII, King knew the British prime minister and American president far better than they knew each other. King had been friends with Churchill for over forty years, since their first meeting as young men in Ottawa at Christmas 1900 when Churchill was visiting the Canadian capital on a lecture tour of Canada and the United States. As King recalled decades later, he found Churchill at an Ottawa hotel memorably drinking champagne even though it was only 11 o’clock in the morning. King had not known Roosevelt for as long. They had first met in November 1935 at the White House with Roosevelt in the third year of his presidency and King freshly back as prime minister after ousting R.B. Bennett in the October election. In this volume, Thompson narrates the Canadian’s friendships with his British and American counterparts. Thompson based his research on the diary King kept for nearly six decades, beginning while a university student in 1893 and continuing until shortly before his death in 1950. The diary is one of the great documents of Canadian history and consists of 30,000 pages and 7.5 million words. In the diary King provides detailed insight on the Anglo-Canadian-American relationship of the Second World War; King’s admiration, disagreements, and frustrations with Churchill and Roosevelt; and the occasional gossipy comments he made about Churchill’s drinking habits or Roosevelt’s health. The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII is a fine study and excellent read. Neville Thompson (emeritus, University of Western Ontario) is also the author of The Anti-Appeasers, Wellington After Waterloo, Earl Bathurst and the British Empire, and Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream.