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From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. By Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xx, 393 pp.
This is one of the best books I have read on the immediate post-World War II period and the rise of the Cold War. It is well written, well argued, and helps explain the motivations of the Soviets, the Americans, and the British in dealing with both World War II and the subsequent Cold War period.
There is a tendency on the part of some in my own discipline of political science to ignore historical works such as the one Father Miscamble has written. That would be a big...
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