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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Serhii Plokhy |
| ISBN: | 9780143118923 0143118927 |
| OCLC Number: | 697641784 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2010. |
| Description: | xxviii, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Operation Argonaut -- The President's journey -- Meeting on Malta -- The Tsar's playground -- The Red Host -- A warriors' summit -- Reunion of the Big Three -- The winter offensive -- The German question -- Spoils of war -- A new world order -- The Security Council -- In the Fuhrer's shadow -- Dividing the Balkans -- The Battle for Poland -- "What would the Ukrainians say?" -- The diplomats' chessboard -- Counting votes in the United Nations -- Stalemate on Poland -- The bombline -- The Far Eastern Blitz -- "Allies should not deceive" -- The wheels of compromise -- A Polish surrender -- The fate of Germany -- Liberated Europe and the Balkan Deal -- Iran, Turkey, and the Empire -- Secret agreements -- Prisoners of war -- The spirit of Yalta -- The Last Supper -- Crossing the finish line -- Days of hope -- The coming storm -- Signs of trouble -- Spy wars -- Stalin digs in -- After Roosevelt. |
| Responsibility: | S.M. Plokhy. |
Abstract:
Puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash out the terms of the peace.
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The end of the Cold War has given scholars a chance to step back and take a more dispassionate look at those eight consequential days in February 1945. It is hard to imagine anyone doing so better than S.M. Plokhy in 'Yalta: The Price of Peace' ... colorful and gripping ... * The Wall Street Journal * Harvard historian S.M. Plokhy has produced a gripping narrative of the eight days in February 1945 when the Big Three - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - convened the Yalta summit as World War II raged on. * The Boston Globe * Read more...
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