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1 online resource |
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Cover; Dedication; Preface; Maps; Part One: A New World Order; 1. Legacy of War; 2. New Departures; 3. The Superpowers; 4. Allies and Adversaries; Part Two: June 1947; 5. Power Polarisation; 6. Volcano of Hidden Fires; 7. Battle for Palestine; 8. Annihilate the Enemy; Part Three: July 1947; 9. A Matter of Friendship; 10. Hanging On; 11. Next Year in Jerusalem; Part Four: August 1947; 12. The Birth of Two Nations; Part Five: September 1947; 13. Land and Lives; 14. Separate Camps; 15. The General Reports; 16. My Head Hangs in Shame; Part Six: October 1947; 17. A Republic Under Siege |
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18. The Great GamePart Seven: November 1947; 19. The Republic Shows Its Guts; 20. Mission Accomplished; 21. The Great Divide; 22. Reviving Germany; Part Eight: December 1947; 23. Final Meeting; 24. Bloody New Year; 25. Christmas at War; 26. A Higher Virtue; Part Nine: January 1948; 27. Harry and Ernie Set Out Their Stalls; 28. A Snowstorm of Defeats; 29. War and Assassination; 30. Colonial Twilight; Part Ten: February 1948; 31. Closer to War; 32. A Classic Coup; 33. Model Colony Explodes; 34. Three Ds for Japan; Part Eleven: March 1948; 35. Death of a Minister; 36. Critical Situation |
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37. Killings and Politics38. The Great Reversal; 39. Every Opportunity; Part Twelve: April 1948; 40. Where Next?; 41. East Asian Conflicts; 42. Tapestry of Escalating Violence; Part Thirteen: May 1948; 43. The Birth of Israel; 44. Asian Encounters; 45. Changing of the Guard; 46. European Confrontations; Part Fourteen: June 1948; 47. Truce; 48. The President Takes a Trip; 49. At Home in Our Land; 50. Legacy of Partition; 51. Emergency; 52. Strategic Morass; 53. Showdown; Part Fifteen; 54. From Then to Now; List of Illustrations; Cast List; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
One year shaped the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the pivotal changes which were forged in the space of thirteen months of 1947-48 Two years after the end of the second conflict to engulf the world in twenty years, and the defeat of the Axis forces of Germany, Italy and Japan, this momentous time saw the unrolling of the Cold War between Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia and the Western powers under the untried leadership of Harry Truman as America came to play a global role for the first time. The British Empire began its demise with the birth of the Indian and Pakistan republics with the flight of millions and wholesale slaughter as Vietnam, Indonesia and other colonies around the globe vied for freedom. 1948 also marked the creation of the state of Israel, the refugee flight of Palestinians and the first Arab-Israeli war as well as the victories of Communist armies that led to their final triumph in China, the coming of apartheid to South Africa, the division of Korea, major technological change and the rolling out of the welfare state against a backdrop of events that ensured the global order would never be the same again. This dynamic narrative spans the planet with overlapping epic episodes featuring such historic figures as Truman and Marshall, Stalin and Molotov, Attlee and Bevin, De Gaulle and Adenauer, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, Nehru and Jinnah, Ben Gurion and the Arab leaders. Between them, they forged the path to our modern world |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed July 02, 2018) |
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World politics -- 1945-1955.
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International relations -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- 20th Century.
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International relations.
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World politics.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781471155048 |
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1471155048 |
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