Six Months in 1945; FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--From World War to Cold War
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 418, [10] pages. Author's compliment slip laid in. 16 pages of photographs and 8 maps. List of Maps, Chronology, and a Note on Names. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Part 1 covers "The Best I Could Do''--Roosevelt; Stalin; Churchill; Poland; Grand Design; and Euphoria". Part 2 covers An Iron Curtain Is Drawn Down: Comrade Vyshinsky; An Impenetrable Veil; Death of a President; The Neophyte and the Commissar; Linkup; Victory; "The Salvation of the World"; Atomic Poker; and Red Empire. Part Three covers "A Peace That is no Peace", with chapters on Berlin, Terminal, Loot, "FINIS", Hiroshima; and After the Bomb; along with Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and Index, as well as maps on F in the Crimea; Into the Reich; Poland Border Changes; Linkup (Journeys to the Elbe); "An Iron Curtain Is Drawn Down" (May 1945); Stalin and the Middle East; Berlin (July 1945); and Stalin and the Far East. Michael Dobbs (born 27 July 1950) is a British-American nonfiction author and journalist. Dobbs spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the collapse of communism. He was the first Western reporter to visit the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980; he also covered the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989, the abortive coup against Gorbachev in August 1991, and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. At The Washington Post, when he was bureau chief in eastern Europe, based in Warsaw. He was bureau chief in Paris and Moscow. Other assignments included as a special correspondent in Belgrade (1977–80), when he covered the death of Marshal Tito. More