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The most noble adventure : the Marshall plan and the time when America helped save Europe / Greg Behrman.
Lippincott Library HC240 .B384 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Behrman, Greg, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marshall Plan.
- Economic assistance, American--Europe--History.
- Economic assistance, American.
- History.
- Europe--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Europe.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- An extraordinary narrative of one of the greatest endeavors in American history, this vibrant character-driven book chronicles the four-year, $13 billion plan to rebuild post-World War II Europe.
- Contents:
- The march to Moscow
- The general's last stand
- The drumbeat at state
- The world responds
- "Friendly aid" in Paris
- Selling America
- Putting it over
- Aid flows
- Springtime in Paris
- The road to recovery
- Shifting gears
- Integration and subterranean fires
- Europe refashioned
- Shutting it down.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-425) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780743282635
- 0743282639
- OCLC:
- 85162140
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