Arthur Morey
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After Germany's defeat in World War II, the victorious Allies faced the daunting task of negotiating a lasting peace. On July 17, 1945, Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill gathered in Potsdam, a quiet suburb of Berlin, to discuss, as Churchill put it, "the gravest matters in the world." Historian Michael Neiberg vividly captures the delegates' personalities: Truman, eager to escape from the shadow of the recently deceased FDR; Churchill,...