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A Calculated Restraint is Richard Breitman's magnum opus, the culmination of decades of brilliant scholarship. In an ideal world, this book should finally resolve the questions and dispel the myths that so many still have about the Allied leaders' knowledge of and response to the Holocaust as it was unfolding. I highlighted so many passages I ran out of ink. -- Rebecca Erbelding, author of <i>Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe</i> This fine book is vintage Richard Breitman: grounded in a mastery of relevant sources, guided by close and careful reading, insistent on historical contextualization, and suspicious of pieties. Breitman shows that one can understand the past only by immersing oneself in it, not by projecting present concerns or retrospective desires onto it. -- Peter Hayes, author of <i>Why? Explaining the Holocaust</i> Richard Breitman sets out with a seemingly simple goal: to contextualize the Allied leaders’ statements about what we now call the Holocaust. It is an indispensable task for historians, and a particularly urgent one in the field of Holocaust Studies, where all too often such statements are taken out of context. Drawing on his vast expertise, Breitman not only achieves this goal but also incisively analyzes Allied leaders’ policies regarding the Holocaust. With clarity and precision, he debunks many conventional myths and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Allied response to the murder of European Jews. * Michael Berenbaum, author of <i>The World Must Know</i> *

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Richard Breitman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at American University. His many books include The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within; FDR and the Jews, coauthored with Allan J. Lichtman; Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew; and The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution.

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