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  title info:
    title: Eight days at Yalta
    sub title: how Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin shaped the post-war world
  name:
    name part: Preston, Diana
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (some color) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: While some of the last battles of World War II were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the so-called "Big Three," met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie, while Soviet soldiers and NKVD men patrolled the grounds of the three palaces occupied by their delegations, they decided, among other things, on the endgame of the war against Nazi Germany and how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the constitution of the nascent United Nations, on the price of Soviet entry into the war against Japan, on the new borders of Poland and on spheres of influence elsewhere in eastern Europe, the Balkans and Greece. With the deep insight of a skilled historian, drawing on the memorable accounts of those who were there, from the leaders and high-level advisors such as Averell Harriman, Anthony Eden and Andrei Gromyko, to Churchill's clear-eyed secretary Marian Holmes and FDR's insightful daughter Anna Boettiger, Diana Preston has, on the 75th anniversary of this historic event, crafted a masterful and vivid chronicle of the conference that created the postwar world, out of which came decisions that still resonate loudly today.
  table of contents: Maps -- Dramatis personae -- PERSONALITIES, POLITICS AND PRESSURES. 'The Big Three' -- 'We Ended Friends' -- PREPARATIONS, MALTA AND ELSEWHERE, EARLY 1945. Argonaut -- 'One Tiny Bright Flame in the Darkness' -- 'JAW TO JAW', YALTA, 3-11 FEBRUARY 1945. 'All the Comforts of Home' -- 'Uncle Joe and Stone Arse' -- 'To Each According to his Deserts' -- 'The Monstrous Bastard of the Peace of Versailles' -- 'The Riviera of Hades' -- 'The Broad Sunlit Plains of Peace and Happiness' -- 'Quite a Decent Arrangement About Poland' -- 'Judge Roosevelt Approves' -- 'A Landmark in Human History' -- AN ALLIANCE UNDER PRESSURE, FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1945. Elephants in the Room -- 'A Fraudulent Prospectus' -- 'I Liked the Little Son of a Bitch' -- AFTERMATH. The Iron Curtain Descends.
  note: Diana Preston.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Yalta Conference (1945 : I︠A︡lta, Ukraine)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Churchill, Winston
      name part: 1874-1965
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
      name part: 1882-1945
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stalin, Joseph
      name part: 1878-1953
    topic: Foreign relations
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Diplomatic history
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Europe
  classification: D734 .P74 2020
  classification: 940.53/142
  identifier: 9780802147653
  identifier: 0802147658
  identifier: 9780802147660
  identifier: 2019045231
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191003
    record change date: 20200420143932.0
    record identifier: in00004098720