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The Impossible Alliance, Part 1: Episode 94

33 min•16 februari 2026

Why were the Yalta Conference’s decisions so vague? Why did Stalin get everything he wanted? And why did Roosevelt act so naively? 

Giles Milton, bestselling author of The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War, joins the podcast today to help understand the relationships that had the greatest impact on the second meeting of the Big Three of the Second World War.

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Author Giles Milton

 


The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton

 


The Big Three at Yalta, February 1945. Roosevelt would be dead in two months. 

 

Map 1: Yalta in Crimea, on the Black Sea, site of the 1945 Yalta Conference of the Big Three


 

Map 2: The tortured road from Saky Airfield to Yalta


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Giles Milton, author: https://www.gilesmilton.com/

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