The lost peace : leadership in a time of horror and hope, 1945 - 1953 / Robert Dallek
In a reinterpretation of the postwar years, historian Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful nations around the globe--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman--to rely on traditional power politics despite the catastrophic violence their nations had endur...
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| Main Authors: | Dallek, Robert (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York, NY : HarperCollins Publ, 2010 |
| Edition: | 1. ed |
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| Table of Contents |
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| London, Moscow , and Washington: friends in need |
| From Tehran to Roosevelt's death |
| Collapse and renewal |
| Hope and despair |
| Irrepressible conflicts? |
| The triumph of fear |
| Cold war illusions-and realities |
| War by other means |
| The military solution |
| Limited war |
| Elusive peace. |
