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Auteur(s) : Mayers, David Allan (1951-....)
Titre(s) : FDR's ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis [Texte imprimé] : from the rise of Hitler to the end of World War II / David Mayers
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : xiv, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; Part I. Axis: 1. Rising sun; 2. Third Reich; 3. New Roman Empire ; Part II. Victims: 4. Middle Kingdom; 5. France Agonistes ; Part III. Victors: 6. Britannia; 7. Great Patriotic War; 8. Conclusions: US diplomacy and war.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-357) and index
"What effect did personality and circumstance have on US foreign policy during World
War II? This incisive account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries
- Japan, Germany, Italy, China, France, Great Britain, USSR - highlights the fascinating
role played by such diplomats as Joseph Grew, William Dodd, William Bullitt, Joseph
Kennedy and W. Averell Harriman. Between Hitler's 1933 ascent to power and the 1945
bombing of Nagasaki, US ambassadors sculpted formal policy - occasionally deliberately,
other times inadvertently - giving shape and meaning not always intended by Franklin
D. Roosevelt or predicted by his principal advisors. From appeasement to the Holocaust
and the onset of the Cold War, David Mayers examines the complicated interaction between
policy, as conceived in Washington, and implementation on the ground in Europe and
Asia. By so doing, he also sheds needed light on the fragility, ambiguities and enduring
urgency of diplomacy and its crucial function in international politics"
Sujet(s) : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945)
Ambassadeurs -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Histoire diplomatique
Relations extérieures -- États-Unis -- 1933-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107031265 (hardback). - ISBN 1107031265 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43639085x
Notice n° :
FRBNF43639085
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