Del Norte Public Library

"The 1940s was the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War from the vantage point of two of the great powers of that era, Britain and the USA, and through the eyes of their wartime leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt. It also looks at their chequered relations with Stalin's Russia and at how the Grand Alliance crumbled into an undesired Cold War." "But this is not...

The non-aggression pact helped Germany to strike Poland without interference. In turn, Russia absorbed vast tracts of eastern Europe. It cost 20 million Russian lives.

Explores the period in which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill held the world's fate in their hands, and the holiday visit that sealed their friendship and steered the course of World War II.

A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.

"The author draws on wartime files only recently released as background for his new work - an intriguing look behind the congenial facade of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, revealing how each jealously guarded knowledge from the other in pursuit of separate national interests." "Theirs was a unique relationship. It was based on linked national histories and partially shared nationality - Churchill was half-American - similarities in class...

As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again. Eleven years in the writing, drawing on newly opened American, Soviet and British documents as well as private diaries, letters and secret audio recordings, Michael Beschloss's gripping narrative lets us eavesdrop on private conversations and telephone calls...

Challenges beliefs that World War I was inevitable, documenting largely forgotten events in each of the warring countries to reveal how several factors may have prevented the war or caused a different outcome.

"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries...