Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War (Hardcover) by Christian Jennings

from RickLA

Flashpoint Trieste is a history of a specific place within the grand theater of World War 2 and the Cold War, focused on a turning point right between the two conflicts. As the U.S. and its allies saw the war ending and the new (cold) war with the Soviet Union looming, they moved to take the city...

from Illiniguy71

The port city of Trieste on the Adriatic, both Italian and Slovenian in population, has long been desired by multiple states in that region. It was the most important port for the Austro-Hungarian Empire before World War I. Trieste was given to Italy after the War, but the Yugoslavs in their new ...

from chuck_ralston

Flashpoint Trieste by Christian Jennings is an historical account of the last days of World War II in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations in northern Italy's city of Trieste involving the confluence of Soviet, Yugoslav, and Allied (British and American) armies seeking a strategic political ad...

from rhbouchard

This is a terrific book. Well-written - the narrative style moves along briskly. He does a great job of making the story personal by telling the personal stories of many involved - from all sides. The subject is one of the more obscure of World War II, but Jennings doesn't leave it in the past, b...

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This book seemed to have some difficult deciding what it wanted to be; at times it focused on individuals, at other times it focused on broader picture issues, sometimes going into great detail, and sometimes brushing over the detail I felt it needed. The copy editing also seemed a bit sloppy wit...