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100			_aDouglas, Roy
245		0	_aFrom war to cold war, 1942-48
260			_aLondon
260			_bMacmillan Press
260			_c1981
300			_a224 p.
520			_aIn the middle of the Second World War, most people in the allied countries expected the 'Big Three' to cooperate closely in tasks of peace and reconstruction. Yet the term 'Iron Curtain was being used by Churchill before the conflict was over, and within a short time people spoke of 'cold war'. By 1948, many expected a shooting war. What had happened to shatter the hopeful illusions? Roy Douglas attempts to answer that question in the light of both British and American documents - many of which have only very recently become available to scholars. The story he tells reveals intense disputes both within and between the wartime allies. The picture here drawn of the world - and particularly Europe - in the immediate after math of the war suggests that the menace of communism to the whole Eurasian continent was a great deal more immediate than is generally realised.
650			_aWar-Cold war 1942-48
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