Six months in 1945 : FDR, Stalin, Churchill, Truman, and the birth of the modern world / by Michael Dobbs.

Author: Dobbs, Michael, 1950-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Description418 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:"The best I could do". Roosevelt : February 3 ; Stalin : February 4 ; Churchill : February 5 ; Poland : February 6 ; Grand Design : February 10 ; Euphoria : February 13 -- "An Iron Curtain is drawn down". Comrade Vyshinsky : February 27 ; "An impenetrable veil" : March 7 ; Death of a President : April 12 ; The neophyte and the Commissar : April 23 ; Linkup : April 25 ; Victory : May 8 ; "The salvation of the world" : May 26 ; Atomic poker : June 1 ; Red Empire : June 24 -- "A peace that is no peace". Berlin : July 4 ; Terminal : July 16 ; Loot : July 23 ; "FINIS" : July 26 ; Hiroshima : August 6 ; After the bomb.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-402) and index.

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