In this collection, senior scholars explore the transit ion from war to uneasy peace: how and why the war ended as it did, whether a different resolution was possible, and if the ensuing Cold War was inevitable.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes index.

Endgames: V-E Day and war termination / Theodore A. Wilson - - The view from Poland / Anna M. Cienciala - - Berlin revisited, and revised: Eisenhower's decision to halt at the Elbe / David Hogan - - Dublin: the view from a neutral capital / Ronan Fanning - - Military expediency, the "hunger winter," and Holland's belated liberation / Hal E. Wert - - Allies or adversaries? the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Soviet-American relations, spring 1945 / Mark A. Stoler - - Congress and the roots of postwar American foreign policy / Randall Woods - - Commoners, commissars, and spies: Soviet policies and society, 1945 / Vladimir V. Pozniakov - - Churchill, the Americans, and self-determination / Warren F. Kimball - - From Reims to Potsdam: victory, atomic diplomacy, and the origins of the Cold War / Arnold A. Offner - - Endings and beginnings / J. Garry Clifford.