On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany.

For four decades, Castro purposely stood at the center of the dangerous game the United States, the Soviet Union and sometimes China played for political pre-eminence in the Third World.

They follow this with an account of the development of Finland and its armed forces in the interwar period and another on the coming of war with the Soviet Union in the aftermath ... the events of the ...