Mr Smyser has produced an authoritative, readable account which should become a standard text.

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Mr Smyser's analysis of Stalin's post-war goals is convincing.

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Andrew Smyser has an M.

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William Smyser, a participant in and observer of the process, lived in Hitler's Germany, served with the United States forces in Germany in the 1950s, worked under General Lucius Clay in Berlin during the 1960s and was the political counsellor at the American embassy in Bonn during the decade that followed.

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