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 bargaining, bombast...
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New York, NY :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
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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.
