Roosevelt and Stalin
Subtitle: portrait of a partnership
By: Susan Butler
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780307594853
Subjects: Diplomatic history; World War, 1939-1945; Foreign relations
Description: Butler explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, reassessing in-depth how the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the world's political stage from the war to the decades leading up to and into the new century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crossing the Atlantic in wartime; title: Traveling to Tehran; title: Tehran; title: First impressions; title: A meeting of minds; title: Cementing the alliance; title: Stalin searches for an ally; title: Barbarossa; title: Roosevelt, Stalin, and the second front; title: Postwar planning; title: Problems and solutions; title: The new weapon: the atomic bomb; title: Yalta; title: Organizing the world; title: Settling issues; title: Post-Yalta problems; title: Roosevelt dies; title: Hopkins turns back the clock; title: Epilogue.