Special envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946
New York : Random House, 1975. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #472341
ISBN: 0394482964
Physical description; xii, 595 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; All aid to Britain, short of war -- How to be "something and somebody" -- "The British can hold out but they cannot win alone" -- Red wolves in the Kremlin -- Pearl Harbor: "at least there is a future now" -- No end of defeats -- To Moscow again, with Churchill -- "I prefer a comfortable oasis to the raft at Tilsit" -- Interlude at sea -- Farewell to London -- "I have come as a friend" -- Teheran, "friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose" -- "The history of war has never witnessed such a grandiose operation" -- Poland, the touchstone -- Warsaw, the doomed uprising -- Molotov's "unconventional request" for postwar credits -- Yalta, "in better health FDR might have held out longer, but I can't believe that it would have made a great difference" -- From Yalta to warm springs -- Truman takes charge -- Japan surrenders -- Farewell to Moscow -- "The center of power is in Washington." Subjects; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) (1891-1986). Churchill, Winston (1874-1965). Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953). World War, 1939-1945. Diplomatic history. Statesmen. Biography. Memoir. United States. Foreign relations. 1933-1945. 20th century. Illustrated. Plates. Personal narratives, American. Diplomacy.
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