Volume 34, Number 10 · June 11, 1987
From World War to Cold War
By Timothy Garton Ash
Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War 1945–46
by Hugh Thomas
Atheneum, 667 pp., $27.50
British Policy Towards the Soviet Union During the Second World War
by Martin Kitchen
St. Martin's, 309 pp., $35.00
The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War
by Fraser J. Harbutt
Oxford University Press, 370 pp., $24.95
Thus the preface to Armed Truce. A lordly undertaking. Book One, entitled 'Despotism and Ideology,' opens with Stalin's February 1946 'election' speech to the Supreme Soviet and depicts the Soviet Union in early 1946. Book Two portrays 'The West'—meaning the United States and the United Kingdom. Book Three, 'Disputed Lands,' takes us magisterially across the whole European continent, country by country, from Poland to Spain and from Finland to Greece, then down through Turkey into Persia and so to 'The East: China, Japan, Korea and Indo-China.' Book Four deals with the first steps in nuclear diplomacy.
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