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" Summits : "
David Reynolds
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BL
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656714
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Reynolds, David,1952-
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| Title & Author
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Summits : : six meetings that shaped the twentieth century /\ David Reynolds
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Basic Books,, c2007
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xi, 544 p., [16] p. of plates :: ill. , maps ;; 25 cm
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0465069045
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Toward the summit : from Babylon to Versailles -- Munich 1938 : Chamberlain and Hitler -- Yalta 1945 : Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- Vienna 1961 : Kennedy and Khrushchev -- Moscow 1972 : Brezhnev and Nixon -- Camp David 1978 : Begin, Carter and Sadat -- Geneva 1985 : Gorbachev and Reagan -- Summitry as a way of life : from the G7 to Bush and Blair
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| Abstract
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Recounts six summits which had a significant political impact during the twentieth century, including the Yalta summit in 1945 with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and the Geneva summit in 1985 with Gorbachev and Reagan
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World politics
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Summit meetings-- History-- 20th century
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Diplomacy-- History-- 20th century
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History, Modern-- 20th century
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D455.R49 2007
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