Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world / Diana Preston.
By: Preston, Diana [author.]
.Publisher: London : Picador, 2019Description: xvii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509868742.Subject(s): Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 | Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 | Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 | Yalta Conference (1945 : I︠A︡lta, Ukraine) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic historyDDC classification: 940.53141 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 940.53141 PRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 017967 |
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.