Gregory W. Sand

Defending the West (eBook, PDF)

The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313053818
• Artikelnr.: 37831817

Autorenporträt

GREGORY WILLIAM SAND is Adjunct Professor of International Relations in the Master of the Arts Program in International Relations at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. In addition to researching a companion volume to Soviet Aims in Central America, on the crisis in U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean and Central America, Dr. Sand is the recipient of a Research Grant from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute to complete research for a book on Truman's post-Presidential years, 1953-1972.

Inhaltsangabe

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