United Nations
Subtitle: The First Fifty Years
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: February 12, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780871136565
Subjects: United Nations; Social history; United Nations & UN agencies; International Relations; Political Science; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; Politics/International Relations; International; Political Science / Government / International; History - General History; History
First sentence: At 7:09 P.M., the twelfth of April, 1945, two and a half hours after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman held a Gideons' Bible in his left hand and took the oath of office as thirty-third president of the United States.