Endgames: V-E Day and war termination / Theodore A. Wilson -- The view from Poland / Anna M. Cienciala -- Berlin revisited, and revised: Eisenhower's decision to halt at the Elbe / David Hogan -- Dublin: the view from a neutral capital / Ronan Fanning -- Military expediency, the "hunger winter, " and Holland's belated liberation / Hal E. Wert -- Allies or adversaries? the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Soviet-American relations, spring 1945 / Mark A. Stoler -- Congress and the roots of postwar American foreign policy / Randall Woods -- Commoners, commissars, and spies: Soviet policies and society, 1945 / Vladimir V. Pozniakov -- Churchill, the Americans, and self-determination / Warren F. Kimball -- From Reims to Potsdam: victory, atomic diplomacy, and the origins of the cold war / Arnold A. Offner -- Endings and beginnings / J. Garry Clifford.