BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE: The Potsdam Conference

Feis, Herbert

Published by Princeton NJ. 1960. Princeton Univ. Press

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grey full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with gilt & black decorative spine label. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. age spots on foredge & top edge (foxing). couple of small coffee type spots on pg. 38, top corner of last pages in the index have coffee type stain, doesn't reach text, rest of contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. rubbed, soiled on rear, spine top and bottom chipped, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (same date on title & copyright page, no additional printings indicated). decorative title pg. viii+367p. 2 b&w maps. bibliographic footnotes throughout. supplementary notes. main sources cited. index. world history. world war ii. soviet union. american history. british empire. stalin. truman. churchill. ~ As the armies of the United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Russia at last rolled over Germany in May of 1945, the peoples of the victorious countries rejoiced; but already the seams in the great coalition, no longer cemented by the exigencies of war, were beginning to rip. In this book, Mr. Feis depicts the time of triumph, then traces the complex web of negotiation preceding the Potsdam conference so that the reader comes to the conference itself with a full understanding of the issues and personalities involved. One sees the quarrel over Poland and difficulties with Tito over Trieste, the arrival of a new American president, still uncomfortable in office but determined to get facts on the table and issues settled quickly, the influence of a new British prime minister suddenly replacing the masterful Churchill in mid~negotiations, and always the implacable, suspicious Stalin. Mr. Feis then gives an account of the conference which is likely to remain the standard reference both for factual content and for its depiction of the event. He has used all the published memoirs of the chiefs of state, military leaders, and diplomats, as well as eye~witness reports and papers of the State and War Deportments, the Harriman papers and other manuscript sources. If the seeds of the future are in the settlements of the past, this book will be recognized as essential for the understanding of postwar history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE: The Potsdam Conference
• Publisher: Princeton NJ. 1960. Princeton Univ. Press
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • cold war
  • world history
  • world war ii