Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

Allies,’ declared Stalin on 8 February 1945, the fifth day of the Yalta Conference, ‘should not deceive one another.’ In ...

The first episode of the series covers January-March 1945, which includes the battles of Iwo Jima and Manila, the firebombing ...

Even when the war’s victory neared, there were reasons for melancholy: Churchill’s increasing awareness of England’s decline, his failure to convince Roosevelt and then Truman of Stalin’s ...

Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...

New Delhi: The invitations to the last supper came on the Prime Minister’s personal letterhead, marked 10, Downing Street.

Tim Bouverie’s Allies at War recounts the fall-outs and reconciliations of The Big Three with sensitivity and wit - 5/5 A ...

Can anything new be said about the second world war? Unexpectedly the answer is yes. Here are just a few of the surprising ...

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill – not a natural threesome. The stresses and strains between them were many and frequent. After the Germans invaded Russia and reached as far as the outskirts of ...

In early February of 1945, when the defeat of Germany was finally a foregone conclusion, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin met in the ...

In February 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in the Crimean resort of Yalta for a crucial summit that would decide the future of Europe. The Yalta Conference was the culmination of years of ...