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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Auteurs principaux:Dallek, Robert (Auteur)
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Langue:English
Publié:New York, NY : HarperCollins Publ, 2010
Édition:1. ed
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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.