Roosevelt and Stalin : portrait of a partnership

Roosevelt and Stalin : portrait of a partnership / Susan Butler.

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 s...

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Main Author: Butler, Susan, 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1879-1953.
World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
Table of 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.

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