Yalta : the price of peace /
A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill and Stalin decided the fate of the world. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy goes against conventional wisdom--cemented during the Cold War--and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDR...
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New York :
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Operation Argonaut. The President's journey
- Meeting on Malta
- The Tsar's playground
- A red host
- pt. II. A warriors' summit. Reunion of the Big Three
- The winter offensive
- The German question
- Spoils of war
- pt. III. A new world order. The Security Council
- In the Führer's shadow
- Dividing the Balkans
- The battle for Poland
- "What would Ukrainians say?"
- pt. IV. The diplomats' chessboard. Counting votes in the United Nations
- Stalemate on Poland
- The bombline
- The Far Eastern blitz : Japan and China
- "Allies should not deceive"
- pt. V. The wheels of compromise. A Polish surrender
- The fate of Germany
- Liberated Europe and the Balkan deal
- Iran, Turkey, and the empire
- Secret agreements
- Prisoners of war
- pt. VI. The spirit of Yalta. The last supper
- Crossing the finish line
- Days of hope
- pt. VII. The coming storm. Signs of trouble
- Spy wars
- Stalin digs in
- After Roosevelt
- Epilogue.