
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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Formato: | Livro |
Idioma: | English |
Publicado em: | New York, NY : HarperCollins Publ, 2010 |
Edição: | 1. ed |
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Sumário |
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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. |