"I'm tired of babying the Soviets" -- The American century -- The Russians : "a tsarist people" -- Stunde Null : Zero Hour -- Austria forgets its past -- The spy comes in from the cold -- Austerity Britain -- A performance at the Bolshoi -- The declaration of Cold War -- The abdication crisis -- Rape and pillage -- "Woe, woe to the Germans" -- "Anywhere but home" -- "This Chinese cesspit" -- Iron Curtain -- The fog of war -- Sunset on the Raj -- Refugees -- Trials and errors -- A Greek tragedy -- She'erit Ha-Pleta : the surviving remnant -- "A Jewish-Bolshevik plot" : blood libels -- The war against terror -- "Listen world. This is crossroads" -- The glory of France : "resistance in the heart" -- Stalin's Turkish bluff -- The bloodbath in Calcutta -- "Half-nun, half-whore" -- The return of the king -- "Sand down a rat hole" -- The general orders : democracy -- The big freeze.
Summary:
Drawing on new archival material and many interviews, Victor Sebestyen analyzes several major postwar decisions as he discusses the economic collapse, starvation, ethnic cleansing, and displacement that followed World War II.
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