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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Diana PrestonEAN: 9781509868773COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 320 gHEIGHT: 196 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & SovietWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
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Ukraine, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Peace studies and conflict resolution, European history, Second World War
Diana Preston brings dry diplomacy to life. Sound in historical judgement and strong on personalities and emotions, she gives the reader a special pass to watch the world-changing events in the Livadia Palace from all the closest angles., Diana Preston’s lively and nuanced account, place[s] the protagonists much more in their moment, as the war was still raging and they were making decisions based on the information to hand . . . shrewd . . . vivid scene-setting, Impressively researched . . . expert account, Diana Preston chronicles those eight momentous days brilliantly., Diana Preston tells it fluently, perceptively and with meticulous scholarship.
Diana Preston is an acclaimed historian and author of the definitive Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy, Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology), The Boxer Rebellion, and The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838–1842, among other works of narrative history. She and her husband, Michael, live in London.
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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.
CONTRIBUTORS: Diana PrestonEAN: 9781509868773COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 320 gHEIGHT: 196 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & SovietWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Ukraine, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Peace studies and conflict resolution, European history, Second World War
Diana Preston is an acclaimed historian and author of the definitive Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy, Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology), The Boxer Rebellion, and The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838–1842, among other works of narrative history. She and her husband, Michael, live in London.
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Excellent book which will keep all followers of true crime engrossed with this narrative on life in Johannesburg a century or so ago. The author has entwined stories of the criminals of the time along with ordinary citizens and has obviously done much research, particularly in the case of De Melker. Some never-before seen (for me) pics of De Melker and her son, Rhodes, also on Sarah Gertrude Millin, a well-known writer at the time. He has gone into great depth on Daisy's attempts to change the will of one of her husbands, then speculates on why she killed Rhodes. Did she kill others? Read Botha's book - highly recommended PM