Special envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946 / by Averell Harriman and Elie Abel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986.

Abel, Elie, author.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986.

Harriman, W. Averell.

World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.

World War, 1939-1945.

Diplomatic history.

World War, 1939-1945--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.

United States.

International relations.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

University of Pennsylvania. Library (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 595 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Special envoy

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1975]

Contents:

All aid to Britain, short of war

How to be "something and somebody"

"The British can hold out but they cannot win alone"

Red wolves in the Kremlin

Pearl Harbor: "at least there is a future now"

No end of defeats

To Moscow again, with Churchill

"I prefer a comfortable oasis to the raft at Tilsit"

Interlude at sea

Farewell to London

"I have come as a friend"

Teheran, " friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose"

" The history of war has never witnessed such a grandiose operation "

Poland, the touchstone

Warsaw, the doomed uprising

Molotov's "unconventional request" for postwar credits

Yalta, "in better health FDR might have held out longer, but I can't believe that it would have made a great difference:

From Yalta to warm springs

Truman takes charge

Japan surrenders

Farewell to Moscow

"The center of power is in Washington."

Notes:

With half-title.

"This book has been thirty years in the making. I have long felt an obligation to record my experiences, observations and assessments of the World War II period. More than any other American, I had both a close personal association with Winston Churchill and intimate dealing with Josef Stalin. Of course, I had known Franklin Roosevelt since my childhood."--Foreword.

Red cloth spine lettered in gilt with blue paper boards. Red endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To the University of Pennsylvania Library. Best wishes. W. Averell Harriman, Washington, D.C., April 5, 1978".

Culture Class Collection copy is "First Edition".

ISBN:

0394482964

OCLC:

1366111