"In a single decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - receded, replaced by two new superpowers: the Soviet Union and the United States. ... This era also produced some of the most remarkable statesmen of modern times, including leaders such as Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Truman and de Gaulle; diplomats like George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin and Robert Shuman; and international fixers, such as Averell Harriman and John Maynard Keynes. Their stories form the core fabric of this book. Richard Crowder examines their shared ambition to rebuild the world, and to launch a second age of globalisation." --book jacket
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ISBN:9781784531027
ISBN:1784531022
Physical Description:print xii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-303) and index
Formatted Contents Note:
Not in enmity -- Getting started -- Doing the job -- Leaving the shadows -- Drawing up account -- Furling the flags -- A sentimental journey -- Force to break -- The half-open door -- Slackening sail -- Early stirrings -- Something brewing -- Across the harbour bar -- Impatient dawn -- The giant's strength -- The swaying flag -- Facing the fight -- The grain of salt
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