Victims Of Yalta
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
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Condition remarks: Foxing on block - does not extend internally.
A landmark work of historical scholarship, Victims of Yalta chronicles one of the most harrowing and largely suppressed episodes of the Second World War's aftermath: the forced repatriation of up to two million Soviet citizens and anti-communist Russians by British and American forces to the USSR, where the majority faced execution, gulags, or death. Nikolai Tolstoy meticulously uncovers the political machinations behind the 1945 Yalta Agreement, arguing with unflinching conviction that Western leaders knowingly condemned hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children to their fates in order to appease Stalin. Drawing on declassified documents, survivor testimonies, and military records, the narrative presents a damning indictment of Allied complicity, exposing the gap between the era's democratic ideals and its brutal realpolitik. The tone is authoritative and deeply moral, combining the rigor of academic history with the urgency of a prosecutorial brief. Decades after its initial publication, this essential and deeply unsettling account remains a vital corrective to sanitized histories of the war's conclusion.
Author: Nikolai Tolstoy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: WW2
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Foxing on block - does not extend internally.
A landmark work of historical scholarship, Victims of Yalta chronicles one of the most harrowing and largely suppressed episodes of the Second World War's aftermath: the forced repatriation of up to two million Soviet citizens and anti-communist Russians by British and American forces to the USSR, where the majority faced execution, gulags, or death. Nikolai Tolstoy meticulously uncovers the political machinations behind the 1945 Yalta Agreement, arguing with unflinching conviction that Western leaders knowingly condemned hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children to their fates in order to appease Stalin. Drawing on declassified documents, survivor testimonies, and military records, the narrative presents a damning indictment of Allied complicity, exposing the gap between the era's democratic ideals and its brutal realpolitik. The tone is authoritative and deeply moral, combining the rigor of academic history with the urgency of a prosecutorial brief. Decades after its initial publication, this essential and deeply unsettling account remains a vital corrective to sanitized histories of the war's conclusion.