Roosevelt and Stalin : : Portrait of a Partnership
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"This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.
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.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 594 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307594853
0307594858
9780307741813
0307741818
SUBJECTS
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- 1882-1945.
Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.