Six Months In 1945 by Michael Dobbs

From Victory to the Cold War

Covering the volatile half-year after Nazi Germany’s defeat in 1945, this account follows how new leaders, strained alliances and fraught diplomacy—between a wary Soviet Union, an inexperienced U.S. president and a shaken Britain—shaped the postwar order; through conferences, confrontations and political missteps it shows how decisions over Germany and Eastern Europe, the displacement of millions, and the emergence of the atomic age helped transform wartime cooperation into the early Cold War.

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