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

"While some of the last battles of WWII 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 barg...

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Main Author: Preston, Diana, 1952- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020.
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Subjects:
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.

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