Summits : six meetings that shaped the twentieth century / David Reynolds.

Author: Reynolds, David, 1952-

Imprint:New York : Basic Books, c2007.

Descriptionxi, 544 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Note:Toward the summit: from Babylon to Versailles -- Munich 1938: Chamberlain and Hitler -- Yalta 1945: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- Vienna 1961: Kennedy and Khrushchev -- Moscow 1972: Brezhnev and Nixon -- Camp David 1978: Begin, Carter and Sadat -- Geneva 1985: Gorbachev and Reagan -- Summitry as a way of life: from the G7 to Bush and Blair.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-520) and index.

Note:Recounts six summits which had a significant political impact during the twentieth century, including the Yalta summit in 1945 with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and the Geneva summit in 1985 with Gorbachev and Reagan.

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