TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preston,Diana
TI  - Eight days at Yalta: how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world 
SN  - 9781509868742 (hbk.) :
AV  - D743 
U1  - 940.5314 PRE 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador
KW  - Churchill, Winston,
KW  - Roosevelt, Franklin D.
KW  - Stalin, Joseph,
KW  - Truman, Harry S.,
KW  - Yalta Conference
KW  - (1945
KW  - IAlta, Ukraine)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Diplomatic history
KW  - Warfare and Defence
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
ER  -