Summary of Diana Preston's Eight Days at Yalta

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#1 The three leaders who would at Yalta decide the end of the war and the shape of the future peace shared only a single common goal: the speedy defeat of Nazi Germany. They were all in poor health, with Roosevelt being the poorest.

#2 Churchill was a habitual alcoholic. He enjoyed whisky, which he always drank without ice but with enough soda or water for one of his private secretaries to describe it as really a mouthwash. He loved champagne and brandy.

#3 Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were all heavy smokers. Their appearances were also different. Roosevelt was tall and thin, with dark rings under his eyes. Churchill was short and round, with no hair on his head. Stalin was tall and thin, with light blue eyes.

#4 The theatricality of the three leaders was different. Roosevelt worked office hours, Churchill was night owl, and Stalin was a night owl. They all had different habits and approaches to government, but they all had a sense of humor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350012927

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The three leaders who would at Yalta decide the end of the war and the shape of the future peace shared only a single common goal: the speedy defeat of Nazi Germany. They were all in poor health, with Roosevelt being the poorest.

#2

Churchill was a habitual alcoholic. He enjoyed whisky, which he always drank without ice but with enough soda or water for one of his private secretaries to describe it as really a mouthwash. He loved champagne and brandy.

#3

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were all heavy smokers. Their appearances were also different. Roosevelt was tall and thin, with dark rings under his eyes. Churchill was short and round, with no hair on his head. Stalin was tall and thin, with light blue eyes.

#4

The theatricality of the three leaders was different. Roosevelt worked office hours, Churchill was night owl, and Stalin was a night owl. They all had different habits and approaches to government, but they all had a sense of humor.

#5

Churchill was a man who had served three presidential terms, and he always kept a close eye on domestic politics. He rarely held a grudge, and he was not complicated in his approach to people.

#6

Roosevelt was a much more calculating and emotional man than Churchill. He was also much more likely to use emotional words when speaking. He was a good orator, but in a different way than Churchill.

#7

Stalin was supremely intelligent, and he had a cold heart. He took all his decisions after carefully weighing them. He never improvised. When he was obliged to depart from his original plan, he never risked doing it until he had worked out a replacement strategy.

#8

Churchill was a member of Parliament from 1900 until just before his death sixty-five years later. He was also a reporter, an army officer, and a successful politician wherever the military action was. His mother took notice and promoted his career using her many affairs.

#9

Churchill was a front-line infantry battalion commander in the trenches of the Western Front in 1915. He was also a major proponent of landings at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles, designed to knock Turkey swiftly out of the enemy alliance.

#10

Roosevelt was a Democrat, while his cousin Theodore was a Republican. In 1910, he was elected to the New York State Senate. In 1920, he ran as the vice-presidential candidate for James Cox in the presidential election. The US Senate rejected Wilson’s proposal that the US join the