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.
Diana Preston chronicles eight days that created the post-war world. The author reveals 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. All the while his territorial ambitions would soon result in the imposition of Communism throughout Eastern Europe.