Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

The Impossible Alliance, Part 2: Episode 95

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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. 

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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 1945
Map 1: The division of Germany after May 1945

 

Map 2: Invasion of Poland, 1939
Map 3: Poland moves 100 km west 

 

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Giles Milton, author: https://www.gilesmilton.com/

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