Published by New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947., 1947
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; red cloth ;xii, 324 p. : ill., ports., map (on lining-papers) ; 22 cm. ; slight foxing ; recounts the former Secretary of State's eyewitness accounts Nazi Germany in 1937, the Yalta Conference, and the aftermath, with numerous transcriptions of Franklin Roosevelt's words and those of Molotov, Semic, Stalin, Truman, etc from the author's shorthand notes ; Contents: Introduction to world leadership -- Awakening danger-and responsibility -- Yalta: high tide of big three unity -- The tide begins to turn -- Potsdam: the success that failed -- The treaties: five steps toward peace -- Setback at London -- Moscow ends an impasse -- London again, and Paris twice -- The Paris Conference and its New York finale -- Unfinished treaties -- Central Europe: the crucial test -- A course of action -- Toward peace in Asia -- Work ahead -- Building of a people's foreign policy -- Control of atomic energy -- What are the Russians after? -- Where do we go from here? ; LCCN: 47-11175 ; OCLC: 395553 ; LC: D815; Dewey: 940.531; G. Book.