Six months in 1945 : FDR, Stalin, Churchill and Truman--from world war to cold war
Title:
Six months in 1945 : FDR, Stalin, Churchill and Truman--from world war to cold war
Author:
ISBN:
9780307271655
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Physical Description:
418 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
"The best I could do". Roosevelt : February 3 ; Stalin : February 4 ; Churchill : February 5 ; Poland : February 6 ; Grand Design : February 10 ; Euphoria : February 13 -- "An Iron Curtain is drawn down". Comrade Vyshinsky : February 27 ; "An impenetrable veil" : March 7 ; Death of a President : April 12 ; The neophyte and the Commissar : April 23 ; Linkup : April 25 ; Victory : May 8 ; "The salvation of the world" : May 26 ; Atomic poker : June 1 ; Red Empire : June 24 -- "A peace that is no peace". Berlin : July 4 ; Terminal : July 16 ; Loot : July 23 ; "FINIS" : July 26 ; Hiroshima : August 6 ; After the bomb.
Summary:
A riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War.
