Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads, by Fraser J. Harbutt
Journal: The English Historical Review
Year: 2011

This book is impressive, provocative and also (I have to declare) not a little exasperating. Let me say something about each. To begin with, it must be said that Fraser Harbutt has unquestionably produced an impressive work of original scholarship which takes issue with the mainstream narratives about the origins of the Cold War which have dominated the last two decades. Yalta 1945 is both a powerful challenge to the doyen of US Cold War historians, John Lewis Gaddis, and many others (for exampl