Winner of the 2019 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Publication Award in American Background

Winner of the 2018 American Academy of Diplomacy Douglas Dillon Prize

Shortlisted for the 2018 Duff Cooper Reward in Literary non-fiction

Honorable Point out (runner-up) for the 2019 ASEEES Marshall D. Shulman Reward

“[A] brilliant book…by far the very best research yet” (Paul Kennedy, The Wall structure Street Journal) from the gripping history behind the Marshall Strategy and its own long-lasting influence on our about The Marshall Strategy: Dawn from the Cold War world.

In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin’s increasing, US officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall attempt to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their substantial, pricey, and ambitious undertaking would confront Europeans and Americans alike using a eyesight at odds with their history and self-conceptions. In the process, they would get the creation of NATO, the European Union, and a American identity that continue steadily to shape world events.

Benn Steil’s “thoroughly researched and well-written accounts” (USA TODAY) tells the story behind the delivery of the Chilly War, told with verve, insight, and resonance for today. Concentrating on the crucial years 1947 to 1949, Benn Steil’s gripping narrative will take us through the seminal episodes marking the collapse of postwar US-Soviet relations—the Prague coup, the Berlin blockade, and the department of Germany. In each case, Stalin’s determination to crush the Marshall Program and undermine American power in Europe is certainly vividly portrayed. Getting to bear fascinating new materials from American, Russian, German, and additional Western european archives, Steil’s account will forever modification how we start to see the Marshall Plan.

“Trenchant and timely…an ambitious, deeply researched narrative that…provides a fresh perspective within the coming Cold War” (THE BRAND NEW York Times Reserve Review), The Marshall Program is a polished and masterly work of historical narrative. An instant classic of Frosty War literature, it “is certainly a gripping, complicated, and critically essential story that’s told with clarity and accuracy” (The Christian Research Monitor).