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Yalta the price of peace /
A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy goes against conventional wisdom--cemented during the Cold War--and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FD...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
2010.
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Physical Description: |
xxviii, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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Summary: | A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy goes against conventional wisdom--cemented during the Cold War--and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDR's handling of the Depression; here we see him as wartime chief. |
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Physical Description: |
xxviii, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-430) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780670021413 0670021415 0143118927 9780143118923 |