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Informationen zum Autor Michael Dobbs Klappentext When Franklin Roosevelt! Winston Churchill! and Joseph Stalin met in Yalta in February 1945! Hitler's armies were on the run! and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace-but instead they set the stage for a forty-four year division of Europe into Soviet and Western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years! their political alliance was beginning to fracture. Although the most dramatic Cold War confrontations such as the Berlin airlift were still to come! a new struggle for global hegemony had got underway by August 1945 when Truman used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants.
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Praise for Michael Dobbs' Six Months in 1945
Superb . . . Dobbs tells the story with the precision of a fine historian and the verve of a first-rate journalist.
The Dallas Morning News
Elegant and convincing. . . . Dobbs s description of the fledgling relationship between the two superpowers is unerringly fascinating.
The Washington Post
[S]uperbly evocative . . . So vivid is the writing that you can practically feel the shuddering vibration and turbulence in what was then the state-of-the-art aircraft carrying Roosevelt on the first visit by an American president to the Soviet Union.
San Francisco Chronicle
A gifted storyteller and thorough researcher with an eye for detail . . . tension and suspense aplenty.
Washington Times
This extraordinary and well-documented account of a short period in history illustrates how just a few men in a closed room can influence history in a monumental and sometimes devastating way. Six Months in 1945 is an important book to read to better understand how such negotiations influence us for decades. It illustrates that events and decisions made on the world stage affect us all, without most of us being aware of the decisions.
Free Lance-Star
Elegantly written . . . Dobbs delivers engaging portraits of the national leaders . . . . A confident and rewarding survey of a hinge point in 20th century history.
Kirkus Reviews
Dobbs brings these six months in 1945 to life better than anyone before him. In brisk, engrossing chapters, he weaves between the Big Three decision-makers . . . and sketches their stratagems, illusions, strengths and weaknesses.
Military Book Club
Dobbs is a gifted writer. His characterizations of powerful men are well judged and rounded, as are his evaluations of the fateful choices they faced.
Foreign Affairs
Dobbs lends the subject an immediacy that will engage history readers. . . . a readily accessible presentation of the onset of the Cold War.
Booklist
An astute narrative of the six months that changed the world.
Publishers Weekly
