Six months in 1945
Subtitle: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War
By: Michael Dobbs
Publisher: Arrow Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780099574873
Subjects: Peace; Warfare and Defence; Yalta Conference (1945 : I͡Alta, Ukraine); Yalta Conference. fast (OCoLC)fst01405865; World politics; World War, 1939-1945
Description: An account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The best I could do". Roosevelt : February 3 ; Stalin : February 4 ; Churchill : February 5 ; Poland : February 6 ; Grand Design : February 10 ; Euphoria : February 13; title: "An Iron Curtain is drawn down". Comrade Vyshinsky : February 27 ; "An impenetrable veil" : March 7 ; Death of a President : April 12 ; The neophyte and the Commissar : April 23 ; Linkup : April 25 ; Victory : May 8 ; "The salvation of the world" : May 26 ; Atomic poker : June 1 ; Red Empire : June 24; title: "A peace that is no peace". Berlin : July 4 ; Terminal : July 16 ; Loot : July 23 ; "FINIS" : July 26 ; Hiroshima : August 6 ; After the bomb.