Yalta 1945: Europe and America at the Crossroads. By Fraser J. Harbutt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxx, 438 pp. $36.00, ISBN 978-0-521-85677-5.)
Journal: Journal of American History
Year: 2010

Fraser J. Harbutt's Yalta 1945 is an example of diplomatic history at its best. Neither an homage to nor an exposé of the last of the World War II conferences that brought the architects of Allied victory together, it extensively utilizes British wartime records and Sovietera Russian records to shift attention from wartime planning for victory by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin to wartime negotiations and preparations for a durable peace once victory was won—a process