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Roosevelt and Stalin : portrait of a partnership / Susan Butler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Susan, 1932- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Diplomatic history.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
- Stalin, Joseph.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 594 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Crossing the Atlantic in wartime
- Traveling to Tehran
- Tehran
- First impressions
- A meeting of minds
- Cementing the alliance
- Stalin searches for an ally
- Barbarossa
- Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Second Front
- Postwar planning
- Problems and solutions
- The new weapon : the atom bomb
- Yalta
- Organizing the world
- Settling issues
- Post-Yalta problems
- Roosevelt dies
- Hopkins turns back the clock.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307594853
- 0307594858
- 9780307741813
- 0307741818
- OCLC:
- 875056123
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