{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Impossible Alliance, Part 2: Episode 95","description":"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?\n\nAuthor Giles Milton joins to discuss some of the Second World War’s most perplexing questions.\n\nPeople\n\nAuthor Giles Milton\n\nHis latest book, The Stalin Affair: The impossible alliance that won the war\n\n\n\nThe Big Three: Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill\n\n\n\nKathleen “Kathy” or “Puff” Harriman, daughter of Roosevelt’s right hand and Ambassador to the USSR in 1945, Averell Harriman\n\n\n\nAverell Harriman\n\nPamela Churchill, WInston Churchill’s daughter-in-law in 1945, and later, Mrs. Averell Harriman\n\n\n\nStalin and Churchill at the Moscow Conference, 1944\n\n\n\nFranklin Roosevelt in 1945Map 1: The division of Germany after May 1945\n\n\n\nMap 2: Invasion of Poland, 1939Map 3: Poland moves 100 km west\n\n\n\nSources\n\nGiles Milton (https://www.gilesmilton.com/) , author: https://www.gilesmilton.com/\n\nBooks (https://www.gilesmilton.com/historybooks)\n\npodcast: Ministry of Secrets (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ministry-of-secrets/id1700550232)\n\nHosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762281/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}