For decades,most historians accepted Churchill's account.Then
came Mark Stoler's reassessment in2005.Stoler argues that British and U.S. leaders actually felt ambivalence toward each other during the war.This arose from along history of tension,and sometimes outright animosity,between the two nations.During the 19th century,one crisis after another had arisen between the two countries,which fought one war and almost came to blows on several other occasions.Though Anglo-American relations