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In a dazzling reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the market leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the world - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman - to rely on traditional power politics regardless of the catastrophic violence their nations got endured. The decisions of these men, for better and frequently for worse, got profound consequences for decades to come, influencing relationships and issues with China, Korea, in the Middle East, and around the world. The Lost Peace is a penetrating look at the misjudgments that triggered great strife and hurting during this critical period, from the final weeks of World Conflict II through the first many years of the Cold Conflict. From Hitler's eradicating program to Stalin's paranoia to Truman's decision to create hydrogen bombs, the men who led the planet at this time carried out astonishingly unwise actions that propelled the nuclear arms race and long the Cold Conflict. Dallek has written a cautionary story that considers what might have been done in different ways to avoid the difficulties that strong and poor nations around the world came across in the mid-twentieth hundred years. Provocative, illuminating, and based on an eternity of research, The Lost Peace offers extraordinary lessons for today's market leaders who may learn from the mistakes that were made between 1945 and 1953 and help them achieve an era of higher international cooperation.
