Preston, Diana, <br/><br/>
Eight days at Yalta :  how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world / 
Diana Preston. 
 - xvii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some colour), maps (black and white) 
<br/><br/>I. Personalities, politics and pressures -- 'The big three' -- 'We ended friends' -- II. Preparations, Malta and elsewhere, early 1945 -- Argonaut -- 'One tiny bright flame in the darkness' -- III. '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' -- IV. An alliance under pressure, February to August 1945 -- Elephants in the room -- 'A fraudulent prospectus' -- 'I liked the little son of a bitch' -- V. Aftermath -- The iron curtain descends.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781509868742 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 <br/>Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945. <br/>Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. <br/>Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>Yalta Conference I︠A︡lta, Ukraine)  (1945 : 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.53141