pdf | 22.59 MB | English| Isbn:1416522824 | Author: Fenby, Jonathan | Year: 2008

Quote:Throughout the war the 'Big Three' - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany - and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war This was the political rather than military struggle a battle of wills and diplomacy between three men with vastly differing backgrounds, characters - and agendas Focusing on the riveting interplay between these three extraordinary personalities, Jonathan Fenby re-creates the major Allied conferences including Casablanca, Potsdam and Yalta to show exactly who bullied whom, who was really in control, and how the key decisions were taken