1945 : the world we fought for / Robert Kee
1985, First Edition. London : Hamilton Guild Publishing. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409093
ISBN: 0241115310
Physical description; xxvii, 371 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; illustrated endpapers. Includes bibliography and index. Contents; The day -- Before the dawn -- Anglo-American relations seem rather unhappy just now -- Only a fairly happy New Year -- Shooting our friends, and enemies. Greece. The Ardennes -- Talking of a Third World War -- Liberation pains and cures. Greece. Yugoslavia -- The Red Army changes the face of the war -- The German quite invincible -- Looking to the future and a Third World War again -- Problems for the Black Sea Conference. Poland -- Yalta: a new light shining -- Yalta: selling a bill of goods without opening the wrapper -- The Pacific War I -- Heroes and others -- Managing in France -- Managing in Italy, Holland, Norway, Denmark -- Positioning for "the last round" in Europe. February-March 1945 -- A British general election in the offing -- The last round April-May 1945. Deaths great and small -- Concentration camps: All mankind is involved -- The British general election, June-July 1945 -- Relations with Russia, Poland, San Francisco, Potsdam -- Pacific War II. From Iwo Jima and Okinawa to VJ Day. The Bomb -- Epilogue: the confusions of peace; The world we fought for, and the problems we found in it. Worsening of relations with Russia. A happier Christmas. Subjects; Since 1945. World politics 1945-. World War, 1939-1945. World politics 1945-1955. World War II, 1939-45 Peace proposals & suggested settlements. World War II, 1939-45 Effects. World War II, 1939-45 History (general & miscellaneous works). World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history. World War, 1939-1945 Chronology. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns. World War, 1939-1945 Peace. Great Britain Politics and Government 1936-1945. World events 1945.
Price: €18.95