Eight Days at Yalta, Diana Preston
Eight Days at Yalta, Diana Preston
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Eight Days at Yalta
How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World

Author: Diana Preston

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 13 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2020


Synopsis

Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.

In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war against Germany, on how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the constitution of the nascent United Nations and on spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Greece.

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.

About Diana Preston

Diana Preston is an Oxford-trained historian who lives in London. Her book Before the Fallout won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Award for science and technology.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ionia on March 09, 2020

First of all, what a great cover--It truly does represent the tense situations described in this book well. Secondly, the book is just as great, especially if you are someone who is interested in WWII history and these important historical figures. The author did a tremendous job of researching and......more

Goodreads review by প্রীতম on November 22, 2021

Book: Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World Author: Diana Preston Publisher: ‎ Picador (16 October 2020); Pan Macmillan UK Language: ‎ English Paperback: ‎ 368 pages Item Weight: ‎ 320 g Dimensions: ‎ 13 x 2.9 x 19.6 cm Importer: ‎ Pan Macmillan India Price: 504......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on November 15, 2019

I'm not a WWII buff at all, but I do like to read nonfiction that is character based. This story about the Yalta conference is spun around the three major characters, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. The author gives sufficient background of these world leaders that you get a sense of them as person......more