The Alliance

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"Triumphant and what a great drama it is. It is the stuff that dreams, and empires, are made of. Dominating it all are the people who made the alliance, their immense egos clashing on the shoals of intractable political and economic realities An immensely informative and absorbing story of how the world's most powerful alliance came into being and how it has survived." — Ronald Steel, Newsday
"Compelling, engrossing." — Publishers Weekly
The Alliance is the full-scale narrative history of the most remarkable political partnership of modem times, written by Richard ). Bamet, author of the widely admired book Global Reach. Here is the fascinating account of how Germany and Japan, the defeated enemies of World War II, became America's allies, protectorates, and ultimately her commercial rivals.
Interviews, memoirs, and recently declassified documents made it possible for this story to be told through the lives ofthe extraord inary figures who brought about the alliance.... Tovább

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"Triumphant and what a great drama it is. It is the stuff that dreams, and empires, are made of. Dominating it all are the people who made the alliance, their immense egos clashing on the shoals of intractable political and economic realities An immensely informative and absorbing story of how the world's most powerful alliance came into being and how it has survived." — Ronald Steel, Newsday
"Compelling, engrossing." — Publishers Weekly
The Alliance is the full-scale narrative history of the most remarkable political partnership of modem times, written by Richard ). Bamet, author of the widely admired book Global Reach. Here is the fascinating account of how Germany and Japan, the defeated enemies of World War II, became America's allies, protectorates, and ultimately her commercial rivals.
Interviews, memoirs, and recently declassified documents made it possible for this story to be told through the lives ofthe extraord inary figures who brought about the alliance. The key figures of the postwar era —Eisenhower, De Gaulle, Eden, Dulles, Kennedy, Monnet, Acheson, Johnson, Nixon, Kissinger, Carter, Schmidt — are brought vividly to life.
The Alliance sheds new light on such crucial events of our time as the Beriin blockade, the Marshall Plan, the rearmament of Germany, the Suez invasion, the Cuban missile showdown, the Berlin Wall crisis, and the critical 1979 decision to deploy a new generation of missiles in Germany
At a moment when .its members are pondering their growing conflicts and reassessing their common interests, this comprehensive history of the century's longest-lasting alliance illuminates the crises of our time.
"Barnet is a rare creature among American authors, a blend of political scientist, historian, reporter, and essayist who takes on major subjects and writes readable, often provocative surveys."
— Peter Osnos, Washington Post Booh World Vissza