Title: What is new here?
Product review: I was disappointed to find nothing new or revealing in this book. Dallas's charge that the allies dawdled on their way to Berlin is not new, and not proven. That the USSR caused the cold war by snatching eastern Europe is the received wisdom. Certainly Churchill's 6 volume work on WWII covers the relevant material more convincingly. Dallas needs to establish that the allies could have moved against German forces quickly enough to prevent the occupation of eastern Europe by the Soviets. And he needs to show that the Soviets could not have moved more quickly in response. The latter point Dallas himself argues against. He insists that the USSR could have moved more quickly but that Stalin wanted the Nazis finish off the Polish anti-communists. Dallas has nothing new to say. His book did prompt me to read Churchill's account which is fast reading compared to Dallas contentious style.
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