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Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world
- Title
- Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world / Diana Preston.
- Author
- Preston, Diana, 1952-
- Publication
- London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight 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 nascent United Nations and on spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Greece. Only three 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 eight 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. But Stalin monitored everything they said and made only paper concessions, while his territorial ambitions would soon result in the imposition of Communism throughout Eastern Europe.
- Alternative Title
- 8 days at Yalta
- Subjects
- Europe
- United States
- Diplomatic history
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
- Europe > Foreign relations > United States
- Yalta Conference
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
- Yalta Conference (1945 : I︠A︡lta, Ukraine)
- United States > Foreign relations > Europe
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- 1939-1945
- World War (1939-1945)
- Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history
- Diplomatic relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-379) and index.
- Contents
- PERSONALITIES, POLITICS AND PRESSURES -- 'The Big Three' -- 'We Ended Friends' -- PREPARATIONS, EARLY 1945, MALTA AND ELSEWHERE -- Argonaut -- 'One Tiny Bright Flame in the Darkness' -- 'JAW TO JAW', YALTA, 3-11 FEBRUARY -- 'All the Comforts of Home' -- 'Uncle Joe and Stone Arse' -- 'To Each According to his Desserts' -- 'The Monstrous Bastard of the -- Peace of Versailles' -- 'The Riviera of Hades' -- 'The Broad Sun-Lit 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, -- Elephants in the Room -- 'A Fraudulent Prospectus' -- 'I Liked the Little Son of a Bitch' -- AFTERMATH -- The Iron Curtain Descends.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1647
- ISBN
- 1509868747
- 9781509868742
- LCCN
- be2019041971
- OCLC
- 1096213301
- Author
- Preston, Diana, 1952- author.
- Title
- Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world / Diana Preston.
- Publisher
- London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-379) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1647