| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

1945: The War That Never Ended. By Gregor Dallas. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xxviii, 739 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-10980-6.)

Most readers of the Journal of American History will not, I am afraid, find much of use in Gregor Dallas's tome, 1945. Billed as a panoramic history of the aborted transition from war to peace in 1945, Dallas's book is actually a sprawling anthology of European social politics during the 1940s. 1945 does not make it to 1945 until almost halfway through the book; rarely does it depart from the European context. That myopic focus relegates even Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S.-British alliance to a virtual sideshow. Readers looking to understand U.S. politics and diplomacy during World War II in an international context should still turn, instead, to books such as Gerhard L. Weinberg's monumental A World at Arms (1994). More significantly, I have no idea how it is possible to write a history of 1945 that ignores almost entirely the dropping of the atomic bomb.

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