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Defending the West The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945-1960
G. W. Sand, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-28330-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28330-7
264 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2004
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Media Type: Hardcover
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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
About the Author: G. W. SAND is Adjunct Professor of History at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy. He holds a Ph.D. in American and Modern European History from Saint Louis University. He has also been a member of the Liberal Arts faculty of Concordia University Wisconsin, St. Louis Center, since 1994, and is the author of two books in 20th Century History and International Relations. In 1999-2000, he was a Visiting Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, England.
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