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Churchill's Triumph

A Novel of Betrayal

By Dobbs, Michael

Publishers Summary:
For eight days, beginning on Sunday, April 4, 1945, the most powerful men in the world – Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin – met at the Black Sea Resort of Yalta, where in the most momentous conference of the century, they preceded to divide up Europe. This novel, told from Churchill&s point of view, takes you behind the scenes and brings you into the minds and hearts of the big three leaders: the dominating and seemingly all-powerful Joseph Stalin, with the largest army, and the mission of expanding the Soviet Empire; an ailing and fragile Roosevelt, willing to make whatever compromises he felt he had to in order to bring Stalin and Russia into the final campaign against Japan; and Churchill, the least powerful of the three, but the most far-sighted, who could not count on Roosevelt as his ally, and could not tame the avaricious Russian bear, determined to gobble up the nations around and beyond it. Like a fly on the wall of history, the reader becomes a hidden witness to these monumental negotiations, witnessing negotiations that would betray the heroic struggle of millions who died and fought in the Great War. & Meanwhile, a Polish count who has taken on the persona of a deceased soldier appears in Churchill&s suite to reveal one of the great unknown secrets of that time: the Soviet&s systematic execution of thousands of Polish officers at Katyn, the mass murder that the Russians eventually blamed on the Germans. His courageous defiance of the German army&s occupation of his village, and his village&s fate at the hands of the victorious Russian army, serve as a profoundly moving subplot to the larger story. Churchill&s Triumph allows the reader to eavesdrop on the world&s most powerful men, as they lie, cheat, and deceive each other as they struggle to reach agreement and secure their places in history.& All the historical aspects of the story are accurate, down to the last detail, including the spice Stalin put in his vodka. A bestseller in England, Churchill&s Triumph received widespread press coverage and reviews:

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ISBN

978-1-40221-045-7

Publisher

Sourcebooks Landmark