The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War Audiobook (Free)

Winner from the 2019 New-York Historical Culture Barbara and David Zalaznick Reserve Reward in American Background

Winner of the 2018 American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon Honor

Shortlisted for the 2018 Duff Cooper Reward in Literary Nonfiction

Honorable Point out (runner-up) for the 2019 ASEEES Marshall D. Shulman Reward

“[A] brilliant book…by far the very best research yet” (Paul Kennedy, The Wall Street Journal) of the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan and its long-lasting impact on our about The Marshall Plan: Dawn from the Cold War world.

In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin’s on the rise, US officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall attempt to reconstruct traditional western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their substantial, expensive, and ambitious commencing would confront Europeans and People in america alike with a eyesight at odds using their history and self-conceptions. Along the way, they would travel the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a European identity that continue to shape world occasions.

Benn Steil’s “thoroughly researched and well-written accounts” (USA TODAY) tells the story behind the delivery of the Chilly Battle, told with verve, insight, and resonance for today. Focusing on the essential years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s gripping narrative requires us through the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the department of Germany. In each case, Stalin’s dedication to crush the Marshall Program and undermine American power in European countries is normally vividly portrayed. Getting to bear exciting new materials from American, Russian, German, and additional European archives, Steil’s account will forever change how we start to see the Marshall Plan.

“Trenchant and timely…an ambitious, deeply researched narrative that…provides a brand new perspective in the approaching Cold War” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review), The Marshall Program is a polished and masterly function of historical narrative. An instant classic of Cool War literature, it “is certainly a gripping, complicated, and critically important story that is told with clarity and precision” (The Christian Science Monitor).