Nicholas Siekierski, an assistant archivist for exhibits and outreach for the Hoover Institution, writes that the great work of Herbert Hoover’s lifetime, Freedom Betrayed, is both a memoir and a diplomatic history of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. In the book, Herbert Hoover contends that freedom was betrayed by both American and British leaders through their deceitful maneuvering of America into war, with acquiescence to Communism resulting in the enslavement of Eastern Europe and China.

Raymond Zilinskas, director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, has donated several rare publications on the history and development of Soviet anti-plague and biological warfare defense programs to the Hoover Institution Library. Of particular note is a twelve-volume set entitled Zanimatel’nye ocherki o deiatel’nosti i deiateliakh protivochumnoi sistemy Rossii i Sovetskogo Soiuza (Moskva, 1994-2002) on how to create defenses against plague and other infectious diseases.