Eisenhower: At War, 19431945 by David Eisenhower Random House,
977 pp., $29.95 Once Germany neared defeat, the problems of the
postwar era began. They brought on an acute crisis between the
British and Americans and an incipient falling out between both
of them and the Soviets, with such grave consequences that we
are still living with them today. Much of David Eisenhower’s
book Eisenhower: At War is devoted to the disputes between the
British and the Americans over military strategy. The main
difference between them was that increasingly the British were
interested in the future balance of power in Europe, and the
Americans were more interested in first defeating Germany and
Japan. The British concern had led Churchill to offer Stalin a
deal in percentages in October 1944, whereby Great Britain and
the Soviet Union would engage in a power-sharing arrangement in
Eastern Europe. The Americans were by that time looking forward
to the climactic phase of the war in the Far East and the
organization of a more effe