MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

In 1945, as World War II came to a close, tensions simmered beneath the Allied victory raising the question: could the U.S. and U.K. have turned on the Soviet Union and won? This video explores the ...