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Title On the edge of the Cold War : American diplomats and spies in postwar Prague / Igor Lukes.
Author Lukes, Igor, author.
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Copyright ©2012

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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 6 Annexe  Sov Stud RE598.U6 2015-L  
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Description xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN 9780195166798 hardback
0195166795 hardback
9780190217846 paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Postwar Czechoslovakia: the master key to Europe? -- Resurrecting Czechoslovakia from its Munich grave -- General Eisenhower declines to liberate Prague -- Spring 1945: the Americans return to the Schönborn Palace -- Ambassador Steinhardt's delayed arrival -- A chronicle of wasted opportunities -- Steinhardt encounters reality: nationalization, expulsions, and U.S. military withdrawal -- America's warning signs: from the Ŝtĕchovice raid to the May 1946 elections -- Great expectations and lost illusions: U.S. intelligence in postwar Prague -- Passing the point of no-return: Prague withdraws from the Marshall Plan -- The communists exchange popularity for absolute power -- The Schönborn Palace under siege: Americans as "spies and saboteurs".
Library Class Sov Stud RE598.U6
Subject Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Cold War.
Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1992.

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