Yalta (Galaxy Books)

The agreements reached by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the historic Yalta Conference have been examined in many lights. To many the code named Argonaut Conference has seemed the necessary price of the wartime coalition; to others a form of appeasement, or even a sell-out. This book dismantles persistent misinterpretations and myths that have developed about those three days in February 1945. Soviet, American, and British documents have been examined to create a day-by-day analysis of the Conference which shaped a post-war peace that represented collective security and a plan for self-determination to the liberated peoples of post-Nazi Europe after the end of World War II. Author’s Notes Contents Part I. “The Three Of Us" 1 Conflicts among “Friends” 2 The Setting Part II. The Conference 3 The Conference Opens 4 The Future of Central Europe: Germany and France 5 Poland: The Best He Could Get 6 The United Nations 7 The Far East and Other Issues Part Ill. The False Dawn 8 Second Thoughts and Conclusions Appendix A Tripartite Agreements of the Yalta Conference Appendix B United States Delegation Memorandum Notes Bibliography Index Diane Shaver Clemens. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 331-341.