From Yalta to Berlin

A history of Germany from the end of World War II to the present day examines the implications of the war in terms of the division of Germany, the impact of the Cold War, the events that led to reunification, and the personalities--Churchill, FDR, Stalin, Kennedy, Kohl, and others--that controlled its fate.

W. R. Smyser is one of America's leading experts on Germany. He served in Munich with the U.S. Army, as well as in Berlin and Bonn with the U.S. State Department. He has written several books on German-American relations and a landmark work on the German economy. He visits Germany and Europe regularly, working with leading U.S. and European intellectual centers, and lectures on Germany and the European Union at Georgetown University.