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Most of World War IIs key events have been exhaustively documented and analyzed during the past sixty years, together with virtually every aspect of the lives and actions of the political leaders, the generals, and the millions of military and civilian personnel involved. However, the vital process that provided the political and strategic framework to enable them to direct the warthe Allied war summitshas not been considered in recent times. Comprehensive and authoritative, War Summits charts the problems and the compromises, the discussions and the negotiations, the successes and the failures of the U.S., British, and Soviet allies from 1941 to 1945. David Stone highlights the sometimes less than altruistic national agendas, the well-founded doubts and uncertainties, and the recurring suspicions of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and their advisers. And Stone relates the strategic planning process directly to its impact upon events on the battlefield and, finally, to the way in which the whole post-1945 worldincluding the United Nations, the nuclear dimension, and the impending Cold Warwas directly shaped by the war summits process. Political and military historians, political l

Author

Stone, David (David J. A.)

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781574889017

Subjects

History, Humanities