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Aftermath - The Makers of the Post-War World

Richard Crowder

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Description:Seventy years ago the most devastating war the world has ever seen ended: World War II.This century-defining event lives on in public memory. Yet little is remembered about the immediate years that followed when an uneasy peace was established and the world rebuilt by an unlikely group of remarkable people.This is the first book to tell their story.From Churchill and Roosevelt to Stalin and Truman; this era produced some of the most remarkable statesmen of modern times. The legacies of figures such as George Marshall and John Maynard Keynes towered over the post-war world for decades. It is their stories that form the core fabric of this book. Facing a world in ruins in 1945 with the collapse of old empires and the political world map redrawn, they came together to make peace. The United Nations, NATO and other international institutions that they built continue to shape our world today. With a wealth of detail and entertaining anecdotes on these and less well known figures, Richard Crowder examines their bold ambition to rebuild the world, and launch a second age of globalization.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Aftermath - The Makers of the Post-War World. To get started finding Aftermath - The Makers of the Post-War World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: I.B.Tauris

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1784531022

Description: Seventy years ago the most devastating war the world has ever seen ended: World War II.This century-defining event lives on in public memory. Yet little is remembered about the immediate years that followed when an uneasy peace was established and the world rebuilt by an unlikely group of remarkable people.This is the first book to tell their story.From Churchill and Roosevelt to Stalin and Truman; this era produced some of the most remarkable statesmen of modern times. The legacies of figures such as George Marshall and John Maynard Keynes towered over the post-war world for decades. It is their stories that form the core fabric of this book. Facing a world in ruins in 1945 with the collapse of old empires and the political world map redrawn, they came together to make peace. The United Nations, NATO and other international institutions that they built continue to shape our world today. With a wealth of detail and entertaining anecdotes on these and less well known figures, Richard Crowder examines their bold ambition to rebuild the world, and launch a second age of globalization.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Aftermath - The Makers of the Post-War World. To get started finding Aftermath - The Makers of the Post-War World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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