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AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR
Beschloss, Michael
1993 176229 < This revelatory, startling and important book is a rewriting of the history of the Cold War's endgame. The authors show that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev maintained an unusually close, confidential relationship, beginning with their shipboard meeting in Malta in December 1989 and extending through 1991. Relying on secret understandings reached in consultation with only their very closest advisers, the two leaders developed what they dubbed a "partnership" that helped transform East-West rivalry into cooperation. Bush, by this account, coaxed the Soviet Union to end the Cold War by convincing Gorbachev that the West would not exploit its vulnerability. Beschloss ( Kennedy and Roosevelt ) and Time foreign affairs correspondent Talbott ( Deadly Gambits ) disclose that Bush cajoled Gorbachev to agree to a reunified Germany's membership in NATO; that former Secretary of State James Baker frantically attempted to warn Gorbachev of the right-wing coup against him. The authors also reveal details of the unprecedented collaboration between Moscow and Washington in the Persian Gulf war, by which Soviet emissaries quietly conveyed Baker's demands to the Iraqi regime. When Russian troops massacred Baltic protesters in Riga and Vilnius, Bush wrote Gorbachev a private letter threatening to cut off all economic assistance, the authors maintain. This highly personal statecraft had its downside for both leaders, assert the authors: Gorbachev, basking in Bush's support, adopted a complacent attitude toward his rival Boris Yeltsin and grossly underestimated the Soviet people's discontent. And Bush was so intent on shoring up Gorbachev that he was slow to perceive that by mid-1991 the Soviet leader was largely a spent force. Critics no doubt will attack this expose since its authors, while using dozens of named sources, also use a raft of unnamed high-level informants from Washington, Moscow and Europe. Their research notes and interview records are under time-seal at the Williams College library in Massachusetts for use by future scholars. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Authors separately of several books on foreign affairs, journalists Beschloss and Talbott have collaborated on a fascinating insider's account of the various negotiations between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev from 1989 to 1991. At the outset, the authors indicate that they will not reveal many of their sources, although they have placed their notes under time seal at the Williams College Library for the use of future scholars. Thus, in the fashion of All the President's Men , the book offers remarkable accounts of meetings and conversations--at which sometimes only Bush, Gorbachev, and the interpreters were in attendance--with no sources cited; the reader must simply trust the veracity of the authors. Of particular interest is their account of how the Bush administration came to grips with Gorbachev's vastly different style, seeking to work with him while not appearing soft on communism. Little Brown & Co 0316092819 / 9780316092814
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THE CONQUERORS: ROOSEVELT, TRUMAN AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S GERMANY, 1941-1945
Beschloss, Michael R.
2002 17510 Long before an Allied victory was assured during World War II, the Big Three--Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin--began discussing how to prevent Germany from ever again threatening the world. The fact that Germany today is a peaceful, democratic ally of the U.S. is "one of America's great twentieth-century international achievements," writes esteemed historian Michael Beschloss. How such a transformation was accomplished is the subject of The Conquerors. Drawing on thousands of previously unreleased documents, secret audio recordings, private diaries, and other information recently made available, Beschloss details the complex diplomacy between the Allied leaders, including their differences over whether to demand Germany's unconditional surrender; how, if at all, to divide Germany after the war; and how to effectively punish Germany without creating the kind of resentment that led to the rise of Hitler. The relationship between the three leaders, and later, Truman, is fascinating, as Beschloss reveals private conversations, ulterior motives, and numerous back-channel deals that took place. Of particular interest is the maneuvering of Roosevelt and Churchill, who were both concerned that the Soviets would attempt a postwar power grab in Western Europe if given the chance. The book also deals with Roosevelt's reluctance to deal with Germany's systematic extermination of the Jews, and the role that his old friend and Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., played in pushing the President into action. After learning of the Holocaust, Morgenthau became obsessed with punishing Germany severely, drafting a plan that called for the complete destruction of their mines and factories as a way of forcing Germany into subsistence farming--ideas that put him at odds with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, and many others in the administration. The Conquerors is a superbly written, if brief, treatment of the political events leading up to the defeat of Germany, with the main players brought vividly to life by Beschloss's keen eye for detail and his ability to expose the human strengths and weaknesses of the participants. --Shawn Carkonen From Publishers Weekly Beschloss provides an engaging, if not revelatory, narrative of key events leading up to the conferences at Yalta (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) and Potsdam (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) and the Allies' decisions about how to prevent future aggression by post-WWII Germany. In his preface, Beschloss makes much of the fact that this study draws on newly released documents from the former Soviet Union, the FBI and private archives. But Beschloss has unearthed nothing to change accepted views of how FDR developed and then began to implement his vision for postwar Germany. The tales Beschloss gathers here are no different from those already told in such books as Eric Larrabee's Commander-in-Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War (1987) and Henry Morgenthau III's Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History (1991). With reference to the latter volume, one of Beschloss's major subplots traces Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s efforts to interest FDR in a draconian, retributive plan (the "Morgenthau Plan") to destroy what little might remain of Germany's infrastructure after the war. Wisely, FDR demurred. Although breaking no new ground, this book by noted presidential historian Beschloss (who has published a trilogy on Lyndon Johnson's White House tapes) will fill the bill for those who need a readable account of how American officials and their Allied counterparts came to draw the map of postwar Europe. 16 pages of b&w photos . Simon & Schuster 0-684-81027-1 / 9780684810270
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THE CONQUERORS: ROOSEVELT, TRUMAN AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HITLER'S GERMANY, 1941-1945
Beschloss, Michael R.
2002 1101011334 Long before an Allied victory was assured during World War II, the Big Three--Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin--began discussing how to prevent Germany from ever again threatening the world. The fact that Germany today is a peaceful, democratic ally of the U.S. is "one of America's great twentieth-century international achievements," writes esteemed historian Michael Beschloss. How such a transformation was accomplished is the subject of The Conquerors. Drawing on thousands of previously unreleased documents, secret audio recordings, private diaries, and other information recently made available, Beschloss details the complex diplomacy between the Allied leaders, including their differences over whether to demand Germany's unconditional surrender; how, if at all, to divide Germany after the war; and how to effectively punish Germany without creating the kind of resentment that led to the rise of Hitler. The relationship between the three leaders, and later, Truman, is fascinating, as Beschloss reveals private conversations, ulterior motives, and numerous back-channel deals that took place. Of particular interest is the maneuvering of Roosevelt and Churchill, who were both concerned that the Soviets would attempt a postwar power grab in Western Europe if given the chance. The book also deals with Roosevelt's reluctance to deal with Germany's systematic extermination of the Jews, and the role that his old friend and Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., played in pushing the President into action. After learning of the Holocaust, Morgenthau became obsessed with punishing Germany severely, drafting a plan that called for the complete destruction of their mines and factories as a way of forcing Germany into subsistence farming--ideas that put him at odds with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, and many others in the administration. The Conquerors is a superbly written, if brief, treatment of the political events leading up to the defeat of Germany, with the main players brought vividly to life by Beschloss's keen eye for detail and his ability to expose the human strengths and weaknesses of the participants. --Shawn Carkonen From Publishers Weekly Beschloss provides an engaging, if not revelatory, narrative of key events leading up to the conferences at Yalta (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) and Potsdam (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) and the Allies' decisions about how to prevent future aggression by post-WWII Germany. In his preface, Beschloss makes much of the fact that this study draws on newly released documents from the former Soviet Union, the FBI and private archives. But Beschloss has unearthed nothing to change accepted views of how FDR developed and then began to implement his vision for postwar Germany. The tales Beschloss gathers here are no different from those already told in such books as Eric Larrabee's Commander-in-Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War (1987) and Henry Morgenthau III's Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History (1991). With reference to the latter volume, one of Beschloss's major subplots traces Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s efforts to interest FDR in a draconian, retributive plan (the "Morgenthau Plan") to destroy what little might remain of Germany's infrastructure after the war. Wisely, FDR demurred. Although breaking no new ground, this book by noted presidential historian Beschloss (who has published a trilogy on Lyndon Johnson's White House tapes) will fill the bill for those who need a readable account of how American officials and their Allied counterparts came to draw the map of postwar Europe. 16 pages of b&w photos. Published at twenty seven dollars. Simon & Schuster 0684810271 / 9780684810270
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