THE CONQUERORS: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941–1945
Michael R. Beschloss, . . Simon & Schuster, $26.95 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-684-81027-0
Beschloss provides an engaging, if not revelatory, narrative of key events leading up to the conferences at Yalta (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) and Potsdam (Truman, Churchill, Stalin) and the Allies' decisions about how to prevent future aggression by post-WWII Germany. In his preface, Beschloss makes much of the fact that this study draws on newly released documents from the former Soviet Union, the FBI and private archives. But Beschloss has unearthed nothing to change accepted views of how FDR developed and then began to implement his vision for postwar Germany. The tales Beschloss gathers here are no different from those already told in such books as Eric Larrabee's
Reviewed on: 09/30/2002
Genre: Nonfiction