Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin shaped the post-war world /

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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Preston, Diana, 1952- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2020]
Edition:	First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Yalta Conference > (1945 : > I︠A︡lta, Ukraine) Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965 > Foreign relations. Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945 > Foreign relations. Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Foreign relations. World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history. Europe > Foreign relations > United States. United States > Foreign relations > Europe.

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.