Fraser J. Harbutt . Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads . New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. Pp. xxx, 438. $36.00.
Journal: The American Historical Review
Year: 2011

In this ambitious and wide‐ranging book Fraser J. Harbutt seeks to overturn what he regards as widespread popular misconceptions concerning the “meaning” of the Yalta accords as presented in “conventional” histories. The misconceptions are many, but the most prominent of them is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt betrayed the West to Joseph Stalin at Yalta and/or that his naïveté concerning Soviet expansionism was responsible for creating the conditions that produced the Cold War. The book is organi