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Defending the West The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945-1960

G. W. Sand

Book Code: SOX/

ISBN: 0-313-28330-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28330-7

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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

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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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