1945 : The world we fought for

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Auteur principal : Kee Robert (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : 1945 : The world we fought for / Robert Kee
Publié : London, New York, Ringwood [etc.] : Penguin books , 1995
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXV-333 p.-[16] p. de pl.)
Collection : Penguin history (London) ; 1995
Sujets :
  • The Day.
  • Before the dawn.
  • 'Anglo-American relations seem rather unhappy just now'.
  • Only a fairly Happy New Year.
  • 'Shooting our friends' -and enemies. Greece. The Ardennes.
  • Talking of a Third World War.
  • Liberation pains and cures. Greece. Yugoslavia.
  • The Red Army changes the face of the war.
  • The Germans 'quite invincible'.
  • Looking to the future and a Third World War again.
  • Problems for the Black Sea Conference. Poland.
  • Yalta- 'a new light shining'.
  • Yalta- 'selling a bill of goods without opening the wrapper'.
  • The Pacific War I.
  • Heroes and others.
  • Managing in France.
  • Managing in Italy, Holland, Norway, Denmark.
  • Positioning for 'the last round' in Europe. February-March 1945.
  • A British General Election in the offing.
  • 'The last round' April-May1945. Deaths of great and small.
  • Concentration Camps. 'All Mankind is involved'.
  • The British General Election June-July 1945.
  • Relations with Russia. Poland, San Francisco, Postdam.
  • Pacific War II. From Iwo Jima and Okinawa to VJ Day. The Bomb.
  • Epilogue : The Confusions of Peace ; The World We Fought For, and the problems we found in it. Worsening of relations with Russia. A happier Christmas.