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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 In 1945, the palace was transformed into a Soviet sanatorium for favored workers needing rest, quiet, and treatment for tuberculosis. The Nazis had stolen everything, even the brass doorknobs.
#2 By late 1944, British and American forces had liberated Rome, Paris, Brussels, and Athens from German and Italian occupation. The Red Army had marched westward across Poland and Romania. The three leaders were facing complicated questions about the end of the war in Europe.
#3 The leaders decided that the second conference would be held in the Mediterranean, but Stalin claimed his health was too fragile to travel any further than his own country’s borders. The western leaders reluctantly agreed to meet him in the Crimea.
#4 The three leaders would gather at Yalta, and the Soviets had just three weeks to turn the ransacked villas into a site fit for one of the largest and most important international summits in history.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	19 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669354475
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

In 1945, the palace was transformed into a Soviet sanatorium for favored workers needing rest, quiet, and treatment for tuberculosis. The Nazis had stolen everything, even the brass doorknobs.

#2

By late 1944, British and American forces had liberated Rome, Paris, Brussels, and Athens from German and Italian occupation. The Red Army had marched westward across Poland and Romania. The three leaders were facing complicated questions about the end of the war in Europe.

#3

The leaders decided that the second conference would be held in the Mediterranean, but Stalin claimed his health was too fragile to travel any further than his own country’s borders. The western leaders reluctantly agreed to meet him in the Crimea.

#4

The three leaders would gather at Yalta, and the Soviets had just three weeks to turn the ransacked villas into a site fit for one of the largest and most important international summits in history.

#5

Averell Harriman was the American ambassador to Britain before the war, and he was assigned to Moscow after the war began. He left his daughter Kathy to prepare Spaso House, the American ambassador’s residence, for the conference.

#6

Averell Harriman, the chairman of Union Pacific Railroad, created the ski resort town of Sun Valley in Idaho. He left Kathy in charge of the resort while he went on trips around the world. She developed a passion for skiing there.

#7

The Soviets were frantically restocking the villas with whatever they could spare from Moscow’s luxury hotels. The Americans spray-painted the furniture with a 10 percent solution of DDT in kerosene, and dusted all the linens with DDT powder, but even that did not get rid of the bugs entirely.

#8

Kathy was the American delegation’s hostess and protocol officer. She was in charge of organizing parties and managing the house staff, but she also had to anticipate and eliminate all potential sources of cultural confusion, irritation, or distraction.

#9

Kathy went from room to room at Livadia, checking on the arrangements, and making sure everything was perfect. She was in charge of the president’s suite, which had an atmosphere of overbearing darkness.

#10

Rooming assignments required strategic thinking. There were not enough private bedrooms in the palace to accommodate everyone who deserved the finest suites in New York’s or London’s most exclusive hotels. The bedrooms on the first floor were reserved for Averell’s closest government advisers.

#11

Averell’s second wife, Marie, should have been the one to accompany him, but because of trouble with her eyesight, she had elected to remain in New York. Averell encouraged Kathy to go in her place.

#12

In 1941, Kathy joined her father in Moscow, where she worked for the International News Service and later for Newsweek. She was thrilled to be able to cover the war in North Africa, but she was having a hard time learning about the Crimea’s past.

#13

In 1945, the American people still knew very little about their eastern ally. There had been no diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States between 1917, when the Bolsheviks seized power, and 1933, when President Roosevelt finally recognized the Soviet Union.

#14

The first barrier to understanding the Soviet Union was the language barrier. It was difficult to get to know anyone other than the most senior leaders in government, and not in any personal way.

#15

The American delegation arrived at Livadia, a palace on the Black Sea, on time. The ablest lieutenant now had just seventy-two hours left until the meeting, and everything was still in an alarming state of extremes. There was more than enough caviar to feed a small city, but scarcely enough lavatories for a large family.

#16

The HMS Orion was anchored in the Valletta Harbor, Malta, in 1942, as the city of Valletta spiraled upward around it. The island had become the most bombed spot on earth, but it was now the site of a meeting between the British and American military chiefs of staff.

#17

When Sarah met with President Roosevelt, she was standing next to her father, who was dressed as an officer of the Royal Yacht Squadron. She was wearing her WAAF uniform, which was made up of many different uniforms.

#18

The Tehran Conference, in early January 1945, was a triumph in Allied cooperation. It solidified the leaders’ commitment to the D-Day landings at Normandy, which relieved the Soviets of the concentrated brunt of Nazi aggression on the Eastern Front.

#19

The British delegation was shocked to hear about the plane crash that had occurred the night before. It had crashed into the sea near Lampedusa, an Italian island. According to early reports, seven of the nineteen passengers and crew had survived, but no one knew who those survivors were.

#20

Churchill had deep concerns about his relationship with Roosevelt. The visit to Malta was a heartening reminder of that partnership, but the island was nearly on its knees by May 1942, and the British aircraft carrier ferrying Spitfires to the island was so badly damaged it was not seaworthy.

#21

Roosevelt was becoming more and more ambivalent towards Churchill, and his opinions and concerns. He was constantly wary of meeting with Churchill in Malta, as he was afraid it would make Stalin feel as if the western powers were plotting behind his back.

#22

Churchill was a father who loved spending time with his daughter. He was a doting father who let his children climb on his back and used his mastery of the English language to compose an ode for his daughters’ beloved dog, Poor Puggy-Wug.

#23

Sarah was the ideal person to be Winston’s aide-de-camp and protector. She had always understood him, and he had always understood her.

#24

Sarah watched as her father, Winston Churchill, waited on the Quincy ship landing in Malta. He had promised Roosevelt he would be waiting on the quay when the president arrived.

#25

The president and the prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, were reunited on the ship’s bridge of the Quincy. They gave each other a firm salute.

#26

When Sarah met her father’s friend FDR, she was pleasantly surprised to see that he had not changed at all. He was still energetic and full of life. However, when she met her father’s other friend Winston Churchill, she was shocked to see that he seemed anxious about the state of the relationship between Britain and the United States.

#27

Sarah Roosevelt, Franklin and Anna’s daughter, sensed that her cousin was nervous about the meeting. She was worried about her father, who was seriously ill.

#28

The president was suffering from acute congestive heart failure, which was beyond the capabilities of the cardiologist McIntire. The president’s primary care was taken over by Howard Bruenn, who revealed FDR’s diagnosis in detail to Anna.

#29

When Roosevelt asked Bruenn if he was healthy enough to travel, he sensed something was wrong and that Anna was protecting him. He decided to bring Anna along anyway, as Churchill and Harriman were bringing their daughters rather than their wives.

#30

FDR’s decision to bring his daughter, rather than his wife, to the Yalta conference was not just about logistics. He wanted to keep things as simple as possible, and he did not want to add to his already heavy workload.

#31

After FDR contracted polio, his daughter, Anna, took on a larger role in his life.