Yalta The Price of Peace, S. M. Plokhy
Yalta The Price of Peace, S. M. Plokhy
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Yalta: The Price of Peace

Author: S. M. Plokhy

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 22 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/27/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

Award-winning Harvard historian S.M. Plokhy delivers a “convincing revisionist analysis” (Publishers Weekly) of the February 1945 Yalta conference. Bolstered by Soviet wiretaps, Plokhy’s engrossing narrative of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR’s negotiations reveals the West did better than previously thought.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick

For all one has read of World War II, the book "Yalta: The Price of Peace" will reveal much. The story of this historical event is really one of the three main participants - Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. It is a story of the three dividing up Europe into what they said they did not want -i.e. S......more

'Хоч два демократичні лідери зробили все можливе у Ялті, ціна за післявоєнний мир була високою не тільки в геополітичному, а й у моральному і людському плані. Частина їхньої жертви в Ялті лежала в царині риторики, але інша частина відображала саму суть їхніх демократичних переконань. Обидва чоловіки......more

Goodreads review by Jovi

Stalin a fost viclean și inteligent, a cedat numai unde avea de câștigat, așa că și-a văzut ca întotdeauna interesul; Churchill a fost recalcitrant, temperamentul său fiind vizibil în permanenta pendulare între SUA și Rusia; Roosevelt a fost creierul întâlnirii, moderând conflictele și accentuând di......more