Eighty years ago today a great international conference was happening that indelibly shaped the world to come. Let’s take a ...

Churchill’s loss couldn’t have come at a worst time, as far as he was concerned. The Potsdam Conference, involving the “Big Three” of President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and ...

A 1945 Punch cartoon depicts Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill at the Yalta Conference.© Alamy Stock Photo ‘The Strategists’ Review: The Men Who Made the War© Alamy Stock Photo ...

Welsh journalist Gareth Jones interviewed the major leaders of the world in his short life.

In the Yalta argument about U.N. Charter details, Roosevelt and Stalin put the emphasis on the big power approach, leaving it for Churchill, the “imperialist,” to defend, sometimes warmly ...

Marshal Stalin has been most generous in the compliments he has paid the Allies. . . .” Stalin broke in: “That was not just a compliment—it was the truth.” Churchill went on: “Thank you.

On Dec. 1, 1943, ending a "Big Three" meeting in Tehran, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Russian Premier Josef Stalin pledged a concerted effort to ...

The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler—How War Made Them and How They Made War Phillips Payson O’Brien. Dutton, $30 (544p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4648-3 ...

Truman, Stalin and Churchill came out, and there was one long sofa. Truman sat in the center, and Churchill — as befitting his politics — was on the right, and Stalin had the place of honor on ...

In my latest book, The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler—How War Made Them, and How They Made War, I examine the control that five national leaders exerted over ...

The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler -- How War Made Them and How They Made War, by Phillips Payson O’Brien (Dutton, $35.00) ...