Susan Butler's brilliantly readable book firmly places FDR where he belongs, as the American president engaged most directly in diplomacy and strategy, who not only had an ambitious plan for the postwar world, but had the strength, ambition and personal charm to overcome Churchill's reluctance and Stalin's suspicion to bring about what was, in effect, an American peace, and to avoid the disastrous consequences that followed the botched peace of Versailles in 1919.
It is at once a long overdue tribute to FDR and his vision, and a serious work of history that reads like a novel. I would rank it next to Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919, and casts new light on the character and war aims of Stalin, Churchill and FDR himself. Brava!
© 2015 Recorded Books, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781490662275
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Ljudbok: 17 april 2015
Susan Butler's brilliantly readable book firmly places FDR where he belongs, as the American president engaged most directly in diplomacy and strategy, who not only had an ambitious plan for the postwar world, but had the strength, ambition and personal charm to overcome Churchill's reluctance and Stalin's suspicion to bring about what was, in effect, an American peace, and to avoid the disastrous consequences that followed the botched peace of Versailles in 1919.
It is at once a long overdue tribute to FDR and his vision, and a serious work of history that reads like a novel. I would rank it next to Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919, and casts new light on the character and war aims of Stalin, Churchill and FDR himself. Brava!
© 2015 Recorded Books, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781490662275
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 april 2015
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16 dec. 2020
Mycket intressant och djuplodande. (Tips: Man bör tex ha läst Antony Beevors suveräna bok om 2:a världskriget i 2 delar innan denna, den här boken kräver att man har viss koll på händelseförloppet). I den här boken framställs Churchill som en egotrippad, lätt förvirrad, rasistisk imperialist (ok, jag spetsar kanske till det en smula...). FDR är utan tvekan hjälten. Stalin framställs också ganska positivt. Rysslands insatser och enorma uppoffringar var helt avgörande för utgången av kriget. Men Stalin var trots allt en mycket hårdhänt diktator och massmördare. Det framkommer bara marginellt i boken, tycker jag.
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