Roosevelt and Stalin
Portrait of a Partnership
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 594 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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 -- Epilogue.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
Diplomatic history.
Diplomatic relations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Soviet Union.
United States.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
Diplomatic history.
Diplomatic relations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Soviet Union.
United States.
ISBN:
9780307594853 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War WWII But | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-562) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-562) and index.