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1946 : the making of the modern world / Victor Sebestyen

by Sebestyen, Victor, 1956-

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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.

World politics -- 1945-1955.

Nineteen forty-six, A.D.

9781101910283 (trade pbk)

Alternate title:

Nineteen forty-six : the making of the modern world

Making of the modern world

1st Vintage Books ed.

xxiii, 438 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

"Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, in 2014, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2015"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-395) and index.

"The year 1946 signaled the beginning of the Cold War, the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the rivalry between the United States and the USSR. Victor Sebestyen reveals the year's events by chronologically framing what was taking place in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with seminal decisions made by heads of state that would profoundly change the old order forever. The map of Eastern Europe would be redrawn, Chinese communists would gain decisive victories in their fight for power, and the world would witness the birth of Israel. 1946 was a year of seismic and dramatic events. Drawing on personal testimonies and new archival research, Sebestyen has written a vivid and compelling narrative that brilliantly evokes the beginning of the Cold War set against a devastated landscape of dystopian horrors.--Publisher.

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