Warren Forbes Kimball (born December 24, 1935) is a historian of theSecond World War andAmerican foreign policy. He was an academic adviser to theChurchill Centre in London.^[1]

He graduated fromGeorgetown University and taught atRutgers University.^[2][3]

Kimball argues that the American presidentFranklin D. Roosevelt only sought a "limited war" against Germany at first,^[4] and that theatomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a geopolitical tool by the United States to assert its power over the Soviet Union through intimidation.^[5] He contends that Roosevelthad a consistent foreign policy during the war: that of a post-warliberal international order based on shared values and co-operation between the U.S. and itswestern wartime allies, the recognition of theSoviet Union and its integration into this system, and the dismantling of Europeanempires andcolonies after the war.^[6]

He has also written on theMorgenthau Plan, and argues that theBritish Foreign Office knew of the plans ten days before theFirst Quebec Conference in 1943.^[7] He has argued against the notion that the plan was intended to be punitive, saying thatUnited States Secretary of the TreasuryHenry Morgenthau Jr.'s plans were intended to make Germany into "good, honest, democraticyeomen farmers, theJeffersonian ideal".^[8] He has also written about the history of theLend-Lease Act^[9] and the topic ofwhite European guilt inpostcolonial thought.^[10]

• Kimball, Warren F. (1969).The Most Unsordid Act: Lend-Lease, 1939-1941. Johns Hopkins University Press.ISBN 978-1-4214-3071-3.^[11]
• Kimball, Warren F. (8 December 2015).Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1: The Complete Correspondence - Three Volumes. Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-1-4008-7574-0. [originally published 1984]
• Kimball, Warren F. (28 August 1994).The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman. Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-03730-1. [originally published 1991]^[12]
• Kimball, Warren F. (8 February 2011).Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, And The Second World War. Harper Collins.ISBN 978-0-06-203484-7. [originally published 1997]^[13]

• 1935 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American historians
• American foreign policy writers
• American military historians
• 21st-century American historians
• Rutgers University faculty
• Georgetown University alumni
• Historians of World War II
• Presidents of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

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