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Author : Sir Alexander Cadogan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, O.M., 1938-1945 written by Sir Alexander Cadogan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Cadogan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, O.M., 1938-1945 written by Alexander Cadogan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dilks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571269853
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (698 download)
Download or read book The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, OM, 19381945 written by David Dilks and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Alexander Cadogan was one of the most outstanding civil servants Britain has ever known. He kept a diary from 1933 until the year of his death, 1968, at the age of eighty-three. This volume concentrates on the crucial years from 1938 to 1945. In 1938 Sir Alexander became the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office. He was to hold that position for the next eight years. As chief adviser to three Foreign Secretaries, Eden (for two periods), Halifax and Bevin, working under three Prime Ministers in Chamberlain, Churchill and Attlee, Cadogan had longer consecutive service at the centre of British affairs than any of them. His tenure of office lasted from the first rumblings of the Czechoslovak and Munich crises through the entire war years to the establishment of the United Nations Organization (in the birth of which - and later as Britain's Permanent Representative - he had a profound and formative role admired on both sides of the Iron Curtain). As head of the Foreign Office, trusted and respected by statesmen and colleagues alike for his calm courage, integrity and 'common sense and judgement carried to the point where they almost amounted to genius', Cadogan played a vital part in the conduct and decision-making if his country's affairs. For eight years he attended the most important Cabinet and Cabinet Committee meetings, ran a great Department of State, and accompanied Churchill on his many wartime journeys to the Big Power conferences at Washington, Moscow, Cairo, Tehran and Yalta. Sir Alexander's meticulously kept private record of those years is a document of the highest historical value. It illumines the workings of the Foreign Office and the Cabinet, the conduct of alliances and international diplomacy at a time of unparalleled importance. From these diaries and the more personal 'diary letters' sent by Sir Alexander to his wife when he travelled abroad, David Dilks has produced a book of lasting importance. On 15 August 1945, with the announcement of the Japanese surrender, Cadogan wrote: ' . . . here is the culmination. The problems in front of us are manifold and awful. But I've lived through England's finest hour . . . ' In essence, The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan are a record of the part played in that hour by one of England's finest servants.
Author : Alexander George Montagu Cadogan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Diaries written by Alexander George Montagu Cadogan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Alexander Cadogan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938-1945 written by Sir Alexander Cadogan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dilks
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan written by David Dilks and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir A. Cadogan
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan O.M. 1938-45 written by Sir A. Cadogan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250247578
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Stalin Affair written by Giles Milton and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War II. In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, shattering what Stalin had considered an ironclad partnership. There were real fears that Stalin’s forces would be defeated or that the Soviet leader would once again strike a deal with Hitler. Either eventuality would spell catastrophe for both Britain and the United States. Enter W. Averell Harriman: a railroad magnate and, at the start of the war, the fourth-richest man in America. At Roosevelt’s behest he traveled to Britain to serve as a liaison between the president and Churchill and to spearhead what became known as the Harriman Mission. Together with his fashionable young daughter Kathy, an unforgettable cast of British diplomats, and Churchill himself, he would eventually manage to wrangle Stalin into the partnership the Allies needed to defeat Hitler. Based on unpublished diaries, letters, and secret reports, The Stalin Affair reveals troves of new material about the path to Allied victory, full of vivid scenes between celebrated and infamous World War II figures. Includes eight-page, color photograph insert.
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393019599
Total Pages : 1898 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Churchill War Papers written by Winston Churchill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated third volume of Churchill's fascinating papers.
Author : Simon Berthon
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306816504
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Warlords written by Simon Berthon and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the eyes and minds of its four great leaders-Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. While their nations battled in the field, these warlords of the twentieth century waged a private war of the mind. From Whitehall and Washington to the Wolf's Lair and the Kremlin, Warlords documents their psychological battles and the attempts to outthink and outfight one another. Like a cinematic thriller, rapidly cutting from one man to the next, the narrative reveals each leader as they face history's greatest conflict-and each other.
Author : Robin Higham
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150507
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Disaster written by Robin Higham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 28, 1940, the Italian army under Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. The British had insisted on guaranteeing Greek and Turkish neutrality, despite the fact that Greece was never more than a limited campaign in an unlimited war as far as they were concerned. The British, however, were never quite sure that Greece was not their last foothold in Europe, and they harbored dreams of holding on to this last bastion of civilization and of protecting it with a diplomatic and military alliance -- a Balkan bloc. These dreams bore little relation to military and economic realities, and so the stage was set for tragedy. In Diary of a Disaster, Robin Higham details the unfolding events from the invasion, though the Italian defeat and the subsequent German invasion, until the British evacuation at the end of April 1941. The Greek army, while tough, was small and based largely upon reserves. They were also largely equipped with obsolete French, Polish, and Czech arms for which there was now no other source than captured Italian materiel. Transportation was also lacking as Greece lacked all-weather roads over much of the country, had no all-weather airport, and only one rail line connecting Athens with Salonika and Florina in the north. Added to the woes of the Greek military, the British commander-in-chief for the Middle East, Sir Archibald Wavell, faced huge logistical challenges as well. Based in Cairo, he was responsible for a huge theatre of operation, from hostile Vichy French forces in Syria to the Boers in South Africa nearly six thousand miles away. His air force was comprised of only a handful of modern aircraft with biplanes and outdated, early monoplanes making up the bulk of his force. Radar was also unavailable to him. His navy was woefully short on destroyers and often incommunicado while at sea. While Wavell had roughly 500,000 men under his command, he was severely limited in how he could use them. The South Africans could only be deployed in East Africa and the Austrians and New Zealanders could not be employed without the consent of their home governments. In short, Churchill had instructed Wavell to offer support that he did not really have and could not afford to give to the Greeks. Higham walks readers through these events as they unfold like a modern Greek tragedy. Using the format of a diary, he recounts day-by-day the British efforts though the failure of Operation Lustre, which no one outside of London thought had any chance of stemming the Nazi tide in Greece.
Author : A. Hills
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140391950X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Britain and the Occupation of Austria, 1943–45 written by A. Hills and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-06-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship of policy to strategy is a central issue in international studies. Using the little-known but highly relevant example of British planning for the occupation in 1945, the book provides a case-study in the practicalities of 'liberating' enemy territory. It looks at the way in which policy was developed and then reconciled with those of her Allies; how negotiations were directly affected by the existing - and expected - strategic situation; and how the military were involved in the reconstruction of Austria.
Author : Victoria Schofield
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182147
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Witness to History written by Victoria Schofield and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political operators. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the inter-war years and knew all the German hierarchy, including Hitler and Hindenburg. He also was one of the last people to interview Trotsky, writing an important analysis of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1917. As King George VI's official biographer, he met and interviewed all the major leaders in the post-war period, including Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and members of the Royal Family; he also supervised young Jack Kennedy's master's thesis. With the first biography of Wheeler-Bennett Victoria Schofield has written a book tha will fascinate anyone interested in twentieth-century European history.
Author : Tim Bouverie
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0451499859
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Appeasement written by Tim Bouverie and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II “An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present.”—Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe. Drawing on deep archival research and sources not previously seen by historians, Tim Bouverie has created an unforgettable portrait of the ministers, aristocrats, and amateur diplomats who, through their actions and inaction, shaped their country's policy and determined the fate of Europe. Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, we embark on a fascinating journey from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk. Bouverie takes us not only into the backrooms of Parliament and 10 Downing Street but also into the drawing rooms and dining clubs of fading imperial Britain, where Hitler enjoyed surprising support among the ruling class and even some members of the royal family. Both sweeping and intimate, Appeasement is not only an eye-opening history but a timeless lesson on the challenges of standing up to aggression and authoritarianism--and the calamity that results from failing to do so.
Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135765111
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book British Foreign Secretaries in an Uncertain World, 1919-1939 written by Michael Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of international diplomacy and Britain’s world role changed immeasurably after the end of the First World War, and this book shows how the various men who headed the Foreign Office during the interwar years sought to operate in the shifting political and bureaucratic environments that confronted them. British Foreign Secretaries in an Uncertain World examines the careers of each of the interwar Foreign Secretaries, including Lord Curzon, Ramsay MacDonald and Anthony Eden. Using an extensive range of primary sources both published and unpublished, official and private, Michael Hughes provides a detailed assessment of how these men approached their role and how influential they were in international diplomacy. The book also looks at the Foreign Secretaries’ successes or failures within the British political system, analysing how influential the Foreign Office was under each Secretary in determining British foreign policy. A fascinating book with a unique focus, British Foreign Secretaries in an Uncertain World takes a rigorous look at a key topic in British history.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795344635
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 written by Martin Gilbert and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume in the official biography: “A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement” (Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War). Starting with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ending with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this volume in the epic biography of Winston S. Churchill draws on remarkably diverse material: from the War Cabinet and other government records to Churchill’s own archive and diaries and letters of his private secretariat to the recollections of those who worked most closely with him. On the day Hitler invaded Poland, Churchill, aged sixty-four, had been out of office for ten years. Two days later, he became First Lord of the Admiralty, in charge of British naval policy and at the center of war direction. In May 1940 he became prime minister, leading his nation during a time of grave danger and setbacks. His first year and a half as prime minister included the Dunkirk evacuation, the fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the Battle of the Atlantic, the struggle in the Western Desert, and Hitler’s invasion of Russia. By the end of 1940, Britain under Churchill’s leadership had survived the onslaught and was making plans to continue the war against an enemy of unlimited ambition and ferocious will. One of Churchill’s inner circle said: “We who worked with Churchill every day of the war still saw at most a quarter of his daily tasks and worries.” Martin Gilbert has pieced together the whole, setting in context much hitherto scattered and secret evidence, in order to give an intimate and fascinating account of the architect of Britain’s “finest hour.” “The most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written.” —Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
Author : C. Price
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403919704
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Britain, America and Rearmament in the 1930s written by C. Price and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to challenge current orthodoxy that Chamberlain's appeasement policy before World War Two was justified by Britain's inability to pay for rearmament. The book shows that British war potential was actually massive, with a solid foundation in the existing Imperial economy. Using previously unconsidered and recently declassified documents from British and American archives the author demonstrates that the deliberate and political rejection of rearmament in the hope of eventual American support proved catastrophic for Britain.
