{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69d4411af44b357ce92f379e/69d4412bb76468caac8b4d77?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Impossible Alliance, Part 2: Episode 95","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69d4411af44b357ce92f379e/bff4aae27a14e0176b6dee3934ddb05d.png?height=200","description":"<p>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?</p>\n<p>Author Giles Milton joins to discuss some of the Second World War’s most perplexing questions. </p>\nPeople\n<p></p>\nAuthor Giles Milton\n<p></p>\nHis latest book, The Stalin Affair: The impossible alliance that won the war\n<p> </p>\n<p></p>\nThe Big Three: Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill\n<p> </p>\n<p></p>\nKathleen “Kathy” or “Puff” Harriman, daughter of Roosevelt’s right hand and Ambassador to the USSR in 1945, Averell Harriman\n<p> </p>\n<p></p>\nAverell Harriman\n \n<p></p>\nPamela Churchill, WInston Churchill’s daughter-in-law in 1945, and later, Mrs. Averell Harriman\n<p> </p>\n<p></p>\nStalin and Churchill at the Moscow Conference, 1944\n<p> </p>\n<p></p>\nFranklin Roosevelt in 1945\nMap 1: The division of Germany after May 1945\n<p> </p>\n<p></p>\nMap 2: Invasion of Poland, 1939\n\nMap 3: Poland moves 100 km west \n<p> </p>\nSources\n<p><a href='https://www.gilesmilton.com/'>Giles Milton</a>, author: <a href='https://www.gilesmilton.com/'>https://www.gilesmilton.com/</a></p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='https://www.gilesmilton.com/historybooks'>Books</a></li>\n<li>podcast: <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ministry-of-secrets/id1700550232'>Ministry of Secrets</a> </li>\n</ul>","author_name":"Scott Bury"}