The iron curtain : Churchill, America, and the origins of the cold war / Fraser J. Harbutt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harbutt, Fraser J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Churchill, Winston.

World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (759 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It was forty-two years ago that Winston Churchill made his famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, in which he popularized the phrase ""Iron Curtain."" This speech, according to Fraser Harbutt, set forth the basic Western ideology of the coming East-West struggle. It was also a calculated move within, and a dramatic public definition of, the Truman administration's concurrent turn from accommodation to confrontation with the Soviet Union. It provoked a response from Stalin that goes far to explain the advent of the Cold War a few weeks later. This book is at once a fascinating biography of Winston

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1. Churchill and America; 2. Churchill, Bolshevism, and the Grand Alliance; 3. Churchill Faces Postwar Problems: Teheran to Yalta; 4. Yalta to Potsdam; 5. Anglo-Soviet Cold War, United States-Soviet Rapprochement; 6. Churchill and Truman; 7. The "Iron Curtain"; 8. The Making of a Showdown; 9. Confrontation; 10. Aftermath and Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p. 341-353 and index.

ISBN:

0-19-987893-5

0-19-536377-9

1-4237-3630-3

1-60129-701-7

OCLC:

778339494