Volume 33, Number 16 · October 23, 1986
Eisenhower's War: The Final Crisis
By Theodore H. Draper
Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945
by David Eisenhower
Random House, 977 pp., $29.95
The decision to let the Russians take Berlin and Prague created a more acute military-political crisis in the British-American alliance than anything else in World War II. It came at the very end of the war when the Supreme Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, had finally begun to live up to his lofty title. The decision was essentially his, and he has been blamed the most for it.
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