rich 1.0 Why were the Yalta Conference’s decisions so vague? Why did Stalin get everything he wanted? And why did Roosevelt act so naively? Giles Milton, bestselling author of The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War, joins the podcast today to help understand the relationships that had the greatest impact on the second meeting of the Big Three of the Second World War. Photos Author Giles Milton The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton The Big Three at Yalta, February 1945. Roosevelt would be dead in two months. Map 1: Yalta in Crimea, on the Black Sea, site of the 1945 Yalta Conference of the Big Three Map 2: The tortured road from Saky Airfield to Yalta 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) Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2 Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43762278/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8932983/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>