Longtime history professor David Nasaw, who has authored several acclaimed biographies, provides a deeply researched and eye-opening account of how the world managed the massive refugee crisis that emerged after World War II. The one million displaced persons who ended up stranded for several years in camps in Germany included not only Jews who had survived the Holocaust but Polish forced laborers and Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian collaborators who either refused to go home or had no homes to return to. In The Last Million, Nasaw describes how  humanitarian considerations often gave way to narrow foreign policy goals and Cold War calculations, setting a pattern for what governments would do when confronted by other refugee crises in the second half of the 20^th and early 21^st centuries.