Eight Days at Yalta

How Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World

By: Diana Preston

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

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.

©2020 Diana Preston (P)2020 Recorded Books

Interesting

Good narrative, informative. Interesting to hear how the YALTA conference shaped our current political geography.

The book has the best female voice narration.

I didn't dislike anything I gave it five stars. I have listened to hundreds of books many of them on these
subjects.

Interesting insights into the post war world

Fascinating glimpse into the decisions made by the then “Big Three” as Germany was collapsing. If you like WWII it’s worth it. Information here prob not in other books on the end of the war.