Yalta 1945 : Europe and America at the crossroads

The Resource Yalta 1945 : Europe and America at the crossroads
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Yalta 1945 : Europe and America at the crossroads
Title remainder
Europe and America at the crossroads
Statement of responsibility
Fraser J. Harbutt
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Language
eng
Summary
This revisionist study of Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946 challenges Americocentric views of the period and highlights Europe's neglected role. Fraser J. Harbutt, drawing on international sources, shows that in planning for the future, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and others self-consciously operated into 1945, not on "East/West" lines but within a "Europe/America" political framework characterized by the plausible prospect of Anglo-Russian collaboration and persisting American detachment. Harbutt then explains the destabilizing transformation around the time of the pivotal Yalta conference of February 1945, when a sudden series of provocative initiatives, manipulations, and miscues interacted with events to produce the breakdown of European solidarity and the Anglo-Soviet nexus, an evolving Anglo-American alignment, and new tensions that finally led to the Cold War. This fresh perspective, stressing structural, geopolitical, and traditional impulses and constraints, raises important new questions about the enduringly controversial transition from World War II to a Cold War that no statesman wanted. -- Back cover
Cataloging source
DLC
Index
index present
LC call number
D749
LC item number
.H37 2010
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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