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Paperback. Condition: New. This volume is concerned with how the war was ended and how power was distributed. This was best seen at the Yalta Conference where the big three leaders met. What was remarkable about the conference was Stalin's determination to extend his influence into Eastern Europe with the border on a Slav line and Roosevelt teaming up with Stalin to belittle the British Empire. Neither Roosevelt nor Stalin thought they ruled empires, they thought of themselves as leaders of a nation and the contiguity of their structure validated this.Roosevelt was very ill and it was a magnificent effort to get to Yalta but he came with one big objective which was to further the establishment of the United Nations. Here he was at odds with the British Empire who wanted several nations to be included as sovereign states. The Soviets wanted two extra places but sided with the US against the British.The big division was on Poland. The Lublin Poles were under the control of the Soviets and were not going to be undermined by the London Poles who wanted democratic elections to parliament. Stalin paid lip service to democracy but it did not engage him.At Yalta, Stalin got what he wanted, Roosevelt pushed on with the United Nations while Churchill felt isolated. The two leaders with territory that was on the whole contiguous, had ganged up on him. Roosevelt was intent on dismembering the British Empire and he was succeeding.The war ended in Europe in May 1945. It would continue in the east for another few months bought to an end by the atom bomb which is a remarkable story on its own.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. This volume is concerned with how the war was ended and how power was distributed. This was best seen at the Yalta Conference where the big three leaders met. What was remarkable about the conference was Stalin's determination to extend his influence into Eastern Europe with the border on a Slav line and Roosevelt teaming up with Stalin to belittle the British Empire. Neither Roosevelt nor Stalin thought they ruled empires, they thought of themselves as leaders of a nation and the contiguity of their structure validated this.Roosevelt was very ill and it was a magnificent effort to get to Yalta but he came with one big objective which was to further the establishment of the United Nations. Here he was at odds with the British Empire who wanted several nations to be included as sovereign states. The Soviets wanted two extra places but sided with the US against the British.The big division was on Poland. The Lublin Poles were under the control of the Soviets and were not going to be undermined by the London Poles who wanted democratic elections to parliament. Stalin paid lip service to democracy but it did not engage him.At Yalta, Stalin got what he wanted, Roosevelt pushed on with the United Nations while Churchill felt isolated. The two leaders with territory that was on the whole contiguous, had ganged up on him. Roosevelt was intent on dismembering the British Empire and he was succeeding.The war ended in Europe in May 1945. It would continue in the east for another few months bought to an end by the atom bomb which is a remarkable story on its own.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In this volume the decisive battles were on the Russian front. At Stalingrad the Germans were held and forced to retreat. At Kursk the Soviets nullified the advantage that the Germans previously had in tanks and aircraft and again the Germans were forced to retreat. On the Atlantic Ocean the Allies gained superiority through the use of intelligence and aircraft. In North Africa the Germans were defeated and the battle was resumed in Sicily. In the Far East the Japanese still controlled most of the Pacific Ocean, but the Americans were building ships to confront them.In the South Pacific the war continued at Guadalcanal which was in part a land battle and in part a sea battle. The British lost Malaya and the fight continued in Burma with Japan having the upper hand. All these battles on several fronts were nothing compared to the production of the atom bomb. Oppenheimer was the brains behind the bomb, but its production was a great engineering feat which has been underrated. The man who organised this was General Leslie Groves.This massive endeavour, which in the context of the war could only be done by the US. Nils Bohr did not believe they could do it and he was nearly right. It was the brilliance of the nuclear scientists that created the bomb but it was the engineers that delivered it.To do this task required enormous competence. Groves wanted a field command but was prevailed upon to lead the Manhattan Project. Groves could be abrasive and appear to others to be over confident but the biggest compliment he was paid was that he produced the best out of people revealing their intrinsic abilities. For an engineer to do this to the world's greatest scientists was a major achievement. He believed in the competence and brilliance of Oppenheimer and was not phased by his communist connections. The one scientist with whom he had difficulties was Leo Szilard, an able man, but to Groves he was disruptive and not a team player. Szilard was contemptuous of an engineer making decisions on a par with the intellectual brilliance of the scientists. Yet the Manhattan Project was an engineering project and Groves delivered. It was a tour de force with a team that worked together at the highest creative level.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. In this volume the decisive battles were on the Russian front. At Stalingrad the Germans were held and forced to retreat. At Kursk the Soviets nullified the advantage that the Germans previously had in tanks and aircraft and again the Germans were forced to retreat. On the Atlantic Ocean the Allies gained superiority through the use of intelligence and aircraft. In North Africa the Germans were defeated and the battle was resumed in Sicily. In the Far East the Japanese still controlled most of the Pacific Ocean, but the Americans were building ships to confront them.In the South Pacific the war continued at Guadalcanal which was in part a land battle and in part a sea battle. The British lost Malaya and the fight continued in Burma with Japan having the upper hand. All these battles on several fronts were nothing compared to the production of the atom bomb. Oppenheimer was the brains behind the bomb, but its production was a great engineering feat which has been underrated. The man who organised this was General Leslie Groves.This massive endeavour, which in the context of the war could only be done by the US. Nils Bohr did not believe they could do it and he was nearly right. It was the brilliance of the nuclear scientists that created the bomb but it was the engineers that delivered it.To do this task required enormous competence. Groves wanted a field command but was prevailed upon to lead the Manhattan Project. Groves could be abrasive and appear to others to be over confident but the biggest compliment he was paid was that he produced the best out of people revealing their intrinsic abilities. For an engineer to do this to the world's greatest scientists was a major achievement. He believed in the competence and brilliance of Oppenheimer and was not phased by his communist connections. The one scientist with whom he had difficulties was Leo Szilard, an able man, but to Groves he was disruptive and not a team player. Szilard was contemptuous of an engineer making decisions on a par with the intellectual brilliance of the scientists. Yet the Manhattan Project was an engineering project and Groves delivered. It was a tour de force with a team that worked together at the highest creative level.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Jan Smuts was a brilliant man who played an important but peripheral role in the affairs of the 20th century. An Afrikaans by birth, he fought against the British in the Boer War and accepted what resulted from that conflict. As a distinguished Boer, he was politically active in the formation of South Africa and in dealing with the Indians whose leader was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was fighting for Indian equality with the whites. Smuts and Gandhi shared a friendship which, although they were of different faiths, led to similar views on religion. Gandhi, a Hindu, rejected Hinduism while Smuts rejected the divinity of Christ but retained his belief in the secular Christ.Having made his peace with the British and considered that the virtues of the British Empire outweighed its defects, he became the leader of the British forces in East Africa and won a victory over the German led forces. It was a definitive victory although the opposition never surrendered and ended up in southern Africa with 1000 Germans and 4000 native Africans.By this time, Smuts had joined the War Cabinet in London and his influence continued at the Peace Conference in Paris. He acted for South Africa and was influential in introducing the mandate system for nations linked to the great powers. He also became friendly with Keynes and supported his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace. As a Boer he understood the perils of alienating the defeated.Between the wars he had an important role in South African politics. Although an Afrikaans he was thought too Anglophile by his fellow Boers. While Botha was alive he could be protected and they could act in tandem.During the second war, he was Premier of South Africa and he was close to Churchill who recognised his worth and used him as a constant adviser and friend. They both shared a common greatness and they both agreed that Europe should be attacked in 1944 through the soft underbelly which led to Vienna.Smuts had a philosophy which appealed to Einstein and Einstein suggested that his scientific approach and Smuts's philosophy of holism could be the intellectual basis of a new world order.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Jan Smuts was a brilliant man who played an important but peripheral role in the affairs of the 20th century. An Afrikaans by birth, he fought against the British in the Boer War and accepted what resulted from that conflict. As a distinguished Boer, he was politically active in the formation of South Africa and in dealing with the Indians whose leader was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was fighting for Indian equality with the whites. Smuts and Gandhi shared a friendship which, although they were of different faiths, led to similar views on religion. Gandhi, a Hindu, rejected Hinduism while Smuts rejected the divinity of Christ but retained his belief in the secular Christ.Having made his peace with the British and considered that the virtues of the British Empire outweighed its defects, he became the leader of the British forces in East Africa and won a victory over the German led forces. It was a definitive victory although the opposition never surrendered and ended up in southern Africa with 1000 Germans and 4000 native Africans.By this time, Smuts had joined the War Cabinet in London and his influence continued at the Peace Conference in Paris. He acted for South Africa and was influential in introducing the mandate system for nations linked to the great powers. He also became friendly with Keynes and supported his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace. As a Boer he understood the perils of alienating the defeated.Between the wars he had an important role in South African politics. Although an Afrikaans he was thought too Anglophile by his fellow Boers. While Botha was alive he could be protected and they could act in tandem.During the second war, he was Premier of South Africa and he was close to Churchill who recognised his worth and used him as a constant adviser and friend. They both shared a common greatness and they both agreed that Europe should be attacked in 1944 through the soft underbelly which led to Vienna.Smuts had a philosophy which appealed to Einstein and Einstein suggested that his scientific approach and Smuts's philosophy of holism could be the intellectual basis of a new world order.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. With the advent of Japan, a European war became a world war and this European war continued on three fronts. The largest front was in Russia where the Germans had conquered large tracts of land and threatened the great cities of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad. The other two fronts, smaller in the use of manpower but not in territory, were in North Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.Japan changed all this and started a world war. Their ambitions were directed at control of the Pacific Ocean and south east Asia. Most of the latter was in the hands of foreign empires and the Japanese struck a chord with the object of taking the Philippines from the US, Malaya from the British and Indonesia from the Netherlands. This they did very quickly.During the winter the Germans were pushed back on the Moscow sector. They had to make a decision as to whether they wanted to take Moscow or Stalingrad and go into the Caucasus. German weakness was a lack of oil, so for the time being Moscow was safe. The Russians were learning fast how to wage war and they now retreated in good order and only fought the Germans from a position of advantage.In North Africa, the armies moved backwards and forwards until the Germans gained an ascendancy and came close to Cairo on the El Alamein line. However, they were exhausted and lost their mild but important air superiority. German tankers were being sunk in the Med and the Allies had found an able new commander. A great battle was fought at El Alamein. An Axis army was defeated and they never regained the initiative.The oil and food war was centred on the eastern American seaboard. The Germans had much success as the Americans did not use a convoy system for the Allied tankers. The attacks were only debilitating as the US were concentrating on getting their troops and supplies into North Africa. The great German objective was to starve Britain into submission and to interdict the oil supply lines which would stop the bombing of GermanyIn the Pacific, the Japanese wanted to form a defensive zone which stretched at its furthest borders from the Aleutians, the Hawaiian Islands, Fiji and onto Australia. The Japanese thought they could do this by winning a great naval battle which would give them control of the Pacific. The Japanese had a great fleet, superior to the Americans. The Battle of Midway as it became known, revolved around the carriers and their aircraft and pilots. There were four Japanese carriers and three American. The four Japanese carriers were sunk while the Americans lost one. The Japanese air arm was savaged. The battle was truly decisive although the Americans only took control of the western Pacific.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This volume is concerned with how the war was ended and how power was distributed. This was best seen at the Yalta Conference where the big three leaders met. What was remarkable about the conference was Stalins determination to extend his influence into Eastern Europe with the border on a Slav line and Roosevelt teaming up with Stalin to belittle the British Empire. Neither Roosevelt nor Stalin thought they ruled empires, they thought of themselves as leaders of a nation and the contiguity of their structure validated this.Roosevelt was very ill and it was a magnificent effort to get to Yalta but he came with one big objective which was to further the establishment of the United Nations. Here he was at odds with the British Empire who wanted several nations to be included as sovereign states. The Soviets wanted two extra places but sided with the US against the British.The big division was on Poland. The Lublin Poles were under the control of the Soviets and were not going to be undermined by the London Poles who wanted democratic elections to parliament. Stalin paid lip service to democracy but it did not engage him.At Yalta, Stalin got what he wanted, Roosevelt pushed on with the United Nations while Churchill felt isolated. The two leaders with territory that was on the whole contiguous, had ganged up on him. Roosevelt was intent on dismembering the British Empire and he was succeeding.The war ended in Europe in May 1945. It would continue in the east for another few months bought to an end by the atom bomb which is a remarkable story on its own. Stalin gets Roosevelt and Churchill to meet at Yalta. Roosevelt wants the United Nations to be established, Churchill and Stalin want sovereign nations within their empires to be recognised at the United Nations. Germany is defeated but war continues in the east until the atom bomb is delivered. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this volume the decisive battles were on the Russian front. At Stalingrad the Germans were held and forced to retreat. At Kursk the Soviets nullified the advantage that the Germans previously had in tanks and aircraft and again the Germans were forced to retreat. On the Atlantic Ocean the Allies gained superiority through the use of intelligence and aircraft. In North Africa the Germans were defeated and the battle was resumed in Sicily. In the Far East the Japanese still controlled most of the Pacific Ocean, but the Americans were building ships to confront them.In the South Pacific the war continued at Guadalcanal which was in part a land battle and in part a sea battle. The British lost Malaya and the fight continued in Burma with Japan having the upper hand. All these battles on several fronts were nothing compared to the production of the atom bomb. Oppenheimer was the brains behind the bomb, but its production was a great engineering feat which has been underrated. The man who organised this was General Leslie Groves.This massive endeavour, which in the context of the war could only be done by the US. Nils Bohr did not believe they could do it and he was nearly right. It was the brilliance of the nuclear scientists that created the bomb but it was the engineers that delivered it.To do this task required enormous competence. Groves wanted a field command but was prevailed upon to lead the Manhattan Project. Groves could be abrasive and appear to others to be over confident but the biggest compliment he was paid was that he produced the best out of people revealing their intrinsic abilities. For an engineer to do this to the worlds greatest scientists was a major achievement. He believed in the competence and brilliance of Oppenheimer and was not phased by his communist connections. The one scientist with whom he had difficulties was Leo Szilard, an able man, but to Groves he was disruptive and not a team player. Szilard was contemptuous of an engineer making decisions on a par with the intellectual brilliance of the scientists. Yet the Manhattan Project was an engineering project and Groves delivered. It was a tour de force with a team that worked together at the highest creative level. Two great battles in Russia at Stalingrad and Kursk. Germany is attacked by bombing from Western Europe. The atom bomb continues to be developed. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Jan Smuts was a brilliant man who played an important but peripheral role in the affairs of the 20th century. An Afrikaans by birth, he fought against the British in the Boer War and accepted what resulted from that conflict. As a distinguished Boer, he was politically active in the formation of South Africa and in dealing with the Indians whose leader was Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was fighting for Indian equality with the whites. Smuts and Gandhi shared a friendship which, although they were of different faiths, led to similar views on religion. Gandhi, a Hindu, rejected Hinduism while Smuts rejected the divinity of Christ but retained his belief in the secular Christ.Having made his peace with the British and considered that the virtues of the British Empire outweighed its defects, he became the leader of the British forces in East Africa and won a victory over the German led forces. It was a definitive victory although the opposition never surrendered and ended up in southern Africa with 1000 Germans and 4000 native Africans.By this time, Smuts had joined the War Cabinet in London and his influence continued at the Peace Conference in Paris. He acted for South Africa and was influential in introducing the mandate system for nations linked to the great powers. He also became friendly with Keynes and supported his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace. As a Boer he understood the perils of alienating the defeated.Between the wars he had an important role in South African politics. Although an Afrikaans he was thought too Anglophile by his fellow Boers. While Botha was alive he could be protected and they could act in tandem.During the second war, he was Premier of South Africa and he was close to Churchill who recognised his worth and used him as a constant adviser and friend. They both shared a common greatness and they both agreed that Europe should be attacked in 1944 through the soft underbelly which led to Vienna.Smuts had a philosophy which appealed to Einstein and Einstein suggested that his scientific approach and Smutss philosophy of holism could be the intellectual basis of a new world order Compared with Roosevelt, Stalin or Churchill Jan Smuts was a peripheral figure.He was born an Afrikaans and fought in the Boer War. Active in South African politics, made peace with the British, hebecame a general in their army, won a victory in East Africa and became a member of the British war cabinet. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Music - Opera Guides.

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Edition 1983. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 1983. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. …

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