The war within the war was the struggle among Roosevelt, Churchill,
and Stalin for the shape of the world that would follow World War
II. That delicate diplomacy is spelled out in Lloyd Gardner's
brilliant reinterpretation of the negotiations that divided Europe
and laid the foundations of the cold war. Mr. Gardner begins his
story not conventionally in 1941 but with the British attempt to
appease Hitler at Munich in 1938. Here, the author argues, were the
roots of the territorial agreements that culminated at Yalta-the
"spheres of influence" which the Americans sought to avoid as an
Old World curse on the possibilities of a freer and more liberal
world economy. Using the most recently opened sources, including
those from Soviet archives, Mr. Gardner captures the heady
atmosphere of these momentous events in deft glimpses of the major
personalities and a persuasive analysis of the course of events. He
shows how Roosevelt tried to avoid the partition of Europe that
Churchill and Stalin wanted, but ultimately settled for it in the
hope of keeping the Allies together to make a more lasting peace.
Playing for time, FDR ran out of it. The result was the cold
war-which Mr. Gardner concludes may have been preferable to World
War III.
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