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Organizing Victory - The War Conferences 1941-45 (Paperback)
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Organizing Victory - The War Conferences 1941-45 (Paperback)
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Between December 1941 and July 1945 the Allied Heads of State met
nine times to decide the ongoing strategy of World War II with
their chiefs of staff. President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill decided the strategies for the
Mediterranean and the Far East at the Arcadia conference in
December 1941, reconvening in Casablanca for the symbol conference
in 1943. They then considered the European campaign at the Trident
Conference in May and the Quadrant conference in August.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek joined them in Egypt for the Sextant
Conference in November 1943, while Premier Joseph Stalin welcomed
them to Tehran for the Eureka conference. The Octagon conference in
September 1944 reaffirmed the Allied partnership's commitment to
the European campaign. They then travelled to Yalta in the Crimea
the following February to agree with Stalin how to end the war in
Europe at the Argonaut conference. At the final conference in
Potsdam, Berlin, in July 1945 President Harry S. Truman took the
place of the recently deceased Roosevelt and the new PM Clement
Atlee replaced Churchill part-way through the conference. They
discussed the chaos of Europe and an end to the campaign against
Japan; Truman also took Stalin aside to tell him about the atomic
bomb. He affected indifference 0- but his spies had forwarned him
of its existence. Discover what they discussed though the edited
minutes of the meetings. Read the reasons and the compromises
behind the decisions. follow the heated discussions as the war
turned in favour of the Allies - and learn how the foundations for
the post war world were laid. This is a history in the raw,
unmediated: how would you, as President of the United States, reply
to Stalin's formal suggestion that between 50,000 and 100,000 of
the German High Command be liquidated at war's end? All the minutes
are supported by footnotes containing extensive supplementary
information?
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