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Crucible - The Year that Forged Our World (Paperback)
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Crucible - The Year that Forged Our World (Paperback)
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The Times Book of the Year BBC History Magazine Book of the Year
Daily Telegraph Book of the Year BOOK OF THE WEEK - The Times 'The
strength of this book lies in the cold realities it delivers. "The
thirteen months of 1947-48," writes Fenby, "provide trenchant
examples of how realpolitik can serve a wider purpose if those in
power know how to use it." Crucible captures perfectly the urgency
of the time...Read this book for the light it shines on a turbulent
time; cherish it for the lessons it provides' - Gerard DeGroot
'Looking back 70 years Jonathan Fenby argues convincingly that the
period from 1947 to 1948 "really did change the world". His book is
an assured gallop across the terrain of contemporary history in
this fateful year. The global devastation of the second world war
had smashed longstanding institutions and bankrupted empires,
leaving behind the kind of power vacuums that were major openings
for change and chaos. Crucible swings from one region to the next
in a fast-moving account of how local actors filled those vacuums,
often with violence.' Mary Sarote, Financial Times One year shaped
the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the
pivotal changes which were forged in the space of thirteen months
of 1947-48 Two years after the end of the second conflict to engulf
the world in twenty years, and the defeat of the Axis forces of
Germany, Italy and Japan, this momentous time saw the unrolling of
the Cold War between Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia and the Western
powers under the untried leadership of Harry Truman as America came
to play a global role for the first time. The British Empire began
its demise with the birth of the Indian and Pakistan republics with
the flight of millions and wholesale slaughter as Vietnam,
Indonesia and other colonies around the globe vied for freedom.
1948 also marked the creation of the state of Israel, the refugee
flight of Palestinians and the first Arab-Israeli war as well as
the victories of Communist armies that led to their final triumph
in China, the coming of apartheid to South Africa, the division of
Korea, major technological change and the rolling out of the
welfare state against a backdrop of events that ensured the global
order would never be the same again. This dynamic narrative spans
the planet with overlapping epic episodes featuring such historic
figures as Truman and Marshall, Stalin and Molotov, Attlee and
Bevin, De Gaulle and Adenauer, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek,
Nehru and Jinnah, Ben Gurion and the Arab leaders. Between them,
they forged the path to our modern world.
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