Eight Days at Yalta
How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
$27.82
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2020
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509868773 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509868771 |
| Author: | Diana Preston |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 131mm x 204mm |
| Series: | Aziza's Secret Fairy Door |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
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. – Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History
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 – Victor Sebestyen * Sunday Times *
Impressively researched … expert account * Kirkus Reviews *
Diana Preston chronicles those eight momentous days brilliantly. * Choice Magazine *
Diana Preston tells it fluently, perceptively and with meticulous scholarship. – Rodric Braithwaite * Spectator *
A colorful chronicle of high-stakes negotiations and a study in human frailties, missteps and ideological blinders. – Matthew Dallek * Washington Post *
Diana Preston
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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