Full name: Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman-from World War to Cold War

Author: Michael Dobbs Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780307456670 0307456676

When Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler’s armies were on the run, and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace—but instead they set the stage for a forty-four year division of Europe into Soviet and Western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was beginning to fracture. Although the most dramatic Cold War confrontations such as the Berlin airlift were still to come, a new struggle for global hegemony had got underway by August 1945 when Truman used the atomic bomb against Hiroshima. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. Similar books: Yalta by S. M. Plokhy Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton Wartime by Juliet Gardiner The Good Fight by Stephen E. Ambrose Roosevelt's Secret War by Joseph E. Persico Year Zero by Ian Buruma The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts The Origins of the Second World War by A. J. P. Taylor Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker Appeasement by Tim Bouverie Washington Goes to War by David Brinkley The Second World War by Antony Beevor Escape From Davao by John D. Lukacs