The Marshall Plan : dawn of the Cold War
Title:
The Marshall Plan : dawn of the Cold War
Author:
Steil, Benn, author.
ISBN:
9781501102370
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Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
"February 2018"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Prologue -- Crisis -- Rupture -- Plan -- Trap -- Unity -- Persuasion -- Sausage -- Subversion -- Passage -- Showdown -- Division -- Success? -- Echoes -- Appendix A. Truman doctrine speech -- Appendix B. Marshall's Harvard speech -- Appendix C. Data -- Appendix D. Maps.
Abstract:
Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.
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