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  <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?

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 (https://www.gilesmilton.com/) , author: https://www.gilesmilton.com/

Books (https://www.gilesmilton.com/historybooks)

podcast: Ministry of Secrets (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ministry-of-secrets/id1700550232)

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