Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Preface xi
1 The
Sunset Years of the Old World 3
2 Staggering
and Blundering into World War 8
3 Woodrow
Wilson and the League 19
4 The
Weimar Republic 33
5 Mussolinis
Italy 44
6 Britain
Between the Wars 53
7 The
Irish Uprising and Its Aftermath 67
8 The
Agony of France 80
9 Lenin
and the Russian Revolution 93
10 The
Miracle of Czechoslovakia 113
11 Ataturk
and the Resurrection of Turkey 124
12 The
Stalin Dictatorship 136
13 Hitler
and the Nazification of Germany 147
14 The
Spanish Civil War 159
15 The
Road to World War II 171
16 The
Fruits of Appeasement 183
17 The
Collapse of the French Third Republic 194
18 Churchill
and the Salvation of Britain 206
19 FDR
From Isolation to Intervention 218
20 Tito
and the Emergence of Yugoslavia 228
21 The
Morality of Collaboration 239
22 The
Reaction of the West to Genocide 250
23 Japan
and the Atomic Bomb 265
24 Hitler
Zenith and Retribution 277
25 Gandhi
and the Power of Nonviolence 288
26 The
Genesis of the Cold War 299
27 Truman
and the Recovery of Europe 310
28 Adenauer
and the Redemption of Germany 324
29 Attlees
Britain 337
30 The
French Fourth Republic 349
31 Stalin
The Cult of Personality 360
32 The
Rise of Israel 371
33 De
Gasperis Italy 384
34 Mao Tse
tung and the Communist Conquest of China 394
35 Japan
The American Interlude 404
36 Nehru
Jinnah and the Partition of India 415
37 The
Decolonization of Black Africa 431
38 The
Sino Soviet Rupture 452
39 De
Gaulle and the French Fifth Republic 463
40 West
Germany and the Detente with the East 474
41 The
Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 486
42 The
Devaluation of Britain 501
43 The
Satellites Challenge the Soviet Union 518
44 The
Ordeal of Greece 529
45 Cardenas
and Castro Two Roads to Revolution 540
46 Nasser
and the Dream of an Arab Empire 561
47 Israel
and the Arab World 571
48 Lyndon
Johnson The Good Road and the Wrong Turn 581
49 Indonesia
The Sukarno and Suharto Years 593
50 South
Africa Rhodesia and Apartheid 603
51 Communist
China Achieves World Power 616
52 Retrospect
and Prospect 628
Index follows
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