Yalta
The Price of Peace

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

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

The Big Three – Roosevelt (U.S.), Churchill (Great Britain), Stalin, (USSR) – wartime conference held in Yalta in February 1945 has become an historical focal point for myth, legend and endless speculation. The proceedings, decisions and participants examined and re-examined over and over again in t......more

My senior thesis was on Yalta as the starting point of the Cold War. I used what was available to me at the time, and in reading this book (written several years after my thesis), I realize that I was wrong on a lot of things but that it was largely due to not having the right information available......more