Eight Days at Yalta
17 October 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.
In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie they decided on the conduct of the final stages of...
Details
17 October 2019368 pages
9781509868759Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Diana Preston brings dry diplomacy to life. Sound in historical judgement and strong on personalities and emotions, she gives the reader a special pass to watch the world-changing events in the Livadia Palace from all the closest angles.Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History
Diana Preston’s lively and nuanced account, place[s] the protagonists much more in their moment, as the war was still raging and they were making decisions based on the information to hand . . . shrewd . . . vivid scene-settingVictor Sebestyen, Sunday Times
Impressively researched . . . expert accountKirkus Reviews
Diana Preston chronicles those eight momentous days brilliantly.Choice Magazine
