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Defending the West The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945-1960
Book Code: SOX/
ISBN: 0-313-28330-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28330-7
264 pages, photos
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2004
List Price: $76.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World History
Series Number: 107
  • Endorsement From Robert Eden,
    Professor of History and Political Science
    Hillsdale College:
    ...Through the words of two men who proved themselves equal to an epic emergency, this volume allows us to be "present at the creation" (as Dean Acheson modestly put it). In this first full, scholarly edition of their correspondence, Gregory Sand has given all students of the Anglo-American alliance and of the Cold War a truly excellent resource. It is almost a political education in itself.
Description: This work provides a documentary record of the correspondence, official and private, between Harry S Truman and Winston Churchill, from Truman's accession to the presidency in April 1945. Official communications between the two resumed during Churchill's second premiership (1951-1955) and more personal correspondence would continue into Churchill's retirement. Subjects of note range from events surrounding German surrender to the Cold War. Completing previously published wartime correspondence between Churchill and Roosevelt up to the latter's death in 1945, this material records the thoughts and decisions of Truman and Churchill from April 12, 1945, nearly a month before Germany's surrender, until Churchill's defeat in the General Election in late July at Potsdam, shortly before the dramatic close of the Pacific war against Japan little more than a fortnight later. The two would subsequently maintain personal contact, first as associates and later as friends, a situation shaped by their meeting at Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill would deliver his famed "Iron Curtain" speech.
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Note
  • Introduction
  • The End of the Second World War
  • Ending the War in Europe
  • Preparing for Potsdam--and After
  • Cold War to the Korean War
  • Journey to Fulton, 1945-1946
  • The Cold War, 1947-1951
  • Churchill's Second Premiership
  • The Last Years
  • The Years 1953-1955
  • The Last Phase
  • Conclusion
  • Appendixes
  • Bibliographic Essay
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2003064766
LCC Class: E814
Dewey Class: 327
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