The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943-1957 (Volume 2

The Shaping of Peace\nby John W. Holmes\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John W. Holmes\nTitle: The Shaping of Peace\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1982\nISBN-13: 9781487591779\nISBN-10: 1487591772\nRRP: \u00A329.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe establishment of the United Nations system at the conclusion of the Second World War was followed by a period of disillusion in the late 40s about the prospects for world order. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 there came a regrouping of forces and revised calculations of what was possible. The first volume of The Shaping of the Peace described Canadian attitudes and policies towards international institutions as the Second World .