Defending the West: The Truman-Churchill Correspondence, 1945-1960
- ISBN-10
- 0313283303
- ISBN-13
- 9780313283307
- Series
- Defending the West
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Authors
- Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman
Description
Covers the wartime correspondence between President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill and includes more than a decade of subsequent personal and official correspondence between the two.
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- 2007
- 556 pages
- Paperback
- Prometheus Books
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- 2007
- 556 pages
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