Summits
- ISBN-10
- 1458752291
- ISBN-13
- 9781458752291
- Category
- Diplomacy
- Pages
- 428
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-05
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant.com
- Author
- David Reynolds
Description
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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