Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world /
by Preston, Diana [author.].
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BookPublisher: London : Picador, 2019Description: xvii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781509868742 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5314 PRESubject(s): Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 | Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 | Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 | Yalta Conference (1945 : IAlta, Ukraine) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and DefenceSummary: In the last winter of WWII, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over 8 days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war against Germany, on how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the constitution of the United Nations and on spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Greece. Only 3 months later, less than a week after the German surrender, Roosevelt was dead and Churchill was writing to the new President, Harry S. Truman, of 'an iron curtain' that was now 'drawn down upon [the Soviets'] front'. Diana Preston chronicles 8 days that created the post-war world, revealing Roosevelt's determination to bring about the dissolution of the British Empire and Churchill's conviction that he and the dying President would run rings round the Soviet premier.
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| 940.5311 OVE 1939: countdown to war | 940.5312 HIT Liberation: the bitter road to freedom, Europe 1944-1945 | 940.5314 LOW The fear and the freedom : how the Second World War changed us / | 940.5314 PRE Eight days at Yalta : | 940.5314 STO Cruel crossing: escaping Hitler across the Pyrenees | 940.5315 DAV Evacuee : from the Liverpool Blitz to Wales | 940.5316 AND Children of the war years: childhood in Britain during 1939 to 1945 |
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In the last winter of WWII, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over 8 days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war against Germany, on how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the constitution of the United Nations and on spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Greece. Only 3 months later, less than a week after the German surrender, Roosevelt was dead and Churchill was writing to the new President, Harry S. Truman, of 'an iron curtain' that was now 'drawn down upon [the Soviets'] front'. Diana Preston chronicles 8 days that created the post-war world, revealing Roosevelt's determination to bring about the dissolution of the British Empire and Churchill's conviction that he and the dying President would run rings round the Soviet premier.
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