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In July 1955 the heads of state from the US, the Soviet Union, Britain, and France came together in an attempt at diplomatic dialogue. In this book, scholars writing from several national perspectives investigate in riveting detail how the event came about, why its "spirit" was so short-lived, and its subsequent impact.

In 1983 the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans began a project to collect on audiotape and videotape the recollections of as many people as possible-civilians as well as soldiers-who were involved in one of the most pivotal events of the century: the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy and Hitler's Fortress Europe. Skillfully edited by Ronald J. Drez and first published on the fifty-year anniversary of D-Day, the award-winning Voices of D-Day tells the story of that momentous operation almost entirely through the words of the people who were there. Here are gripping descriptions of tension-filled crossings to Normandy by plane and by sea, and harrowing accounts of the horrors of battle-of planes shot down, ships destroyed, and servicemen killed one after another as they attempted to navigate Normandy Beach. And here, too, are tales of remarkable courage and heroism-of soldiers helping the wounded, and of others persevering in the face of death and prevailing against the longest of odds. Voices of D-Day, told by those who experienced it, makes us feel that we were all there.

Offers a sterling collection of essays by both participants in and scholars of United States policy toward Europe from 1961 to 1963. Included in the volume are contributions by British historian Alistair Horne, journalist John Newhouse, policymaker Walt W. Rostow, and arms control specialist Carl Kaysen.

This biography of Honduras' longest-serving head of government, Tiburcio Carias (1876-1969), offers a vital account of his life and career. Dodd shows Carias to have been a pragmatist and political survivor. His regime, unique in Central American and Caribbean history, was neither a brutal military government nor draconian and despotic.

In telling the story of seven of the most significant US interventions in the third world during the key cold-war years 1946-1962, Zachary Karabell reveals in Architects of Intervention a complex interplay between the American government and third-world actors in designing US policy in their respective countries.

Studying the example of the US Army newspaper, the "Neue Zeitung" - published for the German population from 1945 to 1955 -this work demonstrates that US officials actually exerted little direct influence on cultural and information programmes in post-war Germany.