![]() ![]() Indeed, he notes at the outset that the book “situates the Marshall Plan more directly at the center of the emerging Cold War than earlier accounts, highlighting the seriousness with which Stalin treated the threat it represented to his new, hard-won buffer zone in central and eastern Europe” in the wake of the Second World War (p. ![]() My doctoral examination on US diplomatic history included this task: “Devise three questions about the Cold War answer one of them and explain why you answered that one and not the other two.” I offered these questions: What was the Cold War? When did it start? And who started it? I answered the third, but Benn Steil’s excellent new book The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War arguably offers persuasive answers to all three questions. Heer (George Washington University)Ĭommissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York) ![]()
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