On the Edge of the Cold War: A Reply
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2016

Vít Smetana's review of my On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague makes several ominous claims but says little to indicate what the book is primarily about.1 It is a study of the political crisis in postwar Prague from the point of view of the U.S. embassy, focusing on the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence personnel who served at the Schönborn Palace from the end of World War II to roughly 1949. The activities of Harry Truman, Iosif Stalin, Winston Churchill,