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Eight Days At Yalta How Churchill, Roosevelt And Stalin Shaped The Post War WorldStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionMeticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama. Only three months later, less than a week after the German surrender, Roosevelt was dead and Churchill was writing to the new President, Harry S. Truman, of 'an iron curtain' that was now 'drawn down upon [the Soviets'] front'. Diana Preston chronicles eight days that created the post-war world, revealing Roosevelt's determination to bring about the dissolution of the British Empire and Churchill's conviction that he and the dying President would run rings round the Soviet premier. But Stalin monitored everything they said and made only paper concessions, while his territorial ambitions would soon result in the imposition of Communism throughout Eastern Europe. |