Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world /
Diana Preston
- xvii, 398 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24cm .
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.
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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945. Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972