02734cam a2200289 4500 419167109 TxAuBib 20200316120000.0 191003s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019045231 9780802147653 HRD 28.00 0802147658 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib Preston, Diana, 1952- Eight days at Yalta [BOOK] : how Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin shaped the post-war world / Diana Preston. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020. xvii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-379) and index. Prologue -- Personalities, politics and pressures -- Preparations, Malta and elsewhere, early 1945 -- 'Jaw to jaw', Yalta, 3-11 February 1945 -- An alliance under pressure, February to August 1945 -- Aftermath -- Epilogue. "While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin-the so-called "Big Three"-met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town ofYalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, while Soviet soldiers and NKVD men patrolled the grounds of the three palaces occupied by their delegations, they decided, among other things, on the endgame of the war against NaziGermany and how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the constitution of the nascent United Nations, on the price of Soviet entry into the war against Japan, on the new borders of Poland, and on spheres of influence elsewhere in EasternEurope, the Balkans, and Greece. With the deep insight of a skilled historian, drawing on the memorable accounts of those who were there-from the leaders and high-level advisors such as Averell Harriman, Anthony Eden, and Andrei Gromyko, to Churchill's clear-eyed secretary Marian Holmes and FDR's insightful daughter Anna Boettiger-Diana Preston has, on the 75th anniversary of this historic event, crafted a masterful and vivid chronicle of the conference that created the post-war world, out of which camedecisions that still resonate loudly today"-- Provided by publisher. 20200316. Yalta Conference 1945 I͡Alta, Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history. Europe Foreign relations United States. United States Foreign relations Europe.