The Impossible Alliance, Part 2: Episode 95
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Giles Milton discusses the complexities of the Yalta Conference and its implications for post-war history.
Why did the Yalta Conference end the way it did? Why did Churchill try an end-run around Roosevelt? Why did Roosevelt try to curry Stalin’s favour? What would this mean to post-war history? Author Giles Milton joins to discuss some of the Second World War’s most perplexing questions. People Author Giles Milton His latest book, The Stalin Affair: The impossible alliance that won the war The Big Three: Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill Kathleen “Kathy” or “Puff” Harriman, daughter of Roosevelt’s right hand and Ambassador to the USSR in 1945, Averell Harriman Averell Harriman Pamela Churchill, WInston Churchill’s daughter-in-law in 1945, and later, Mrs. Averell Harriman Stalin and Churchill at the Moscow Conference, 1944 Franklin Roosevelt in 1945Map 1: The division of Germany after May 1945 Map 2: Invasion of Poland, 1939Map 3: Poland moves 100 km west Sources Giles Milton , author: https://www.gilesmilton.com/ Books podcast: Ministry of Secrets Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
More episodes of Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2
- The Fall of Berlin
- The Great Race Begins
- Spring Awakening and Upper Silesia: Episode 97
- Silesia, Part 1—Episode 96
- The Impossible Alliance, Part 1: Episode 94
- From Malta to Yalta—Episode 93
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