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Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and josef stalin. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen for our next event. Its more or less the keynote of the day because it is the talk on the yalta conference though all of the programs, all of the sessions will be wonderful. We have Serhii Plokhii here from harvard. Hes the professor of ukrainian history and director of Ukrainian Research institute at harvard. As i mentioned the morning hes been on our list for a longtime and we have finally found the right time to bring him down here to enlighten us. His many titles include the last elm pmperor, the cossack myth and forgotten bastard of the Eastern Front. Ladies and gentlemen, dr. Serhii plokhii. [ applause ] thank you very much for this introduction. Thanks to the organizers ....
Welcome back to the Madeleine Paul hilliard Conference Center here at the higgins hotel. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. We spent this morning doing some pretty high Level Analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. But as we all know, wars are fought on battle feels, not in board rooms, and these summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they wouldnt have mattered much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, we asked our very own rob citino, dr. Citino is the executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy as well as the Museum Samuel and mary sto ....
Panelists compare yalta, to previous meetings between the three leaders, and examine the political motives that drove the deliberations. The National WorldWar Ii Museum in new orleans hosted the event. Welcome back, as we begin to silence our conversations, please remember to silence your cell phones as well. I was thinking with yalta being an eightday conference, we have almost made a full eight hours talking about it. The last session is often one of our favorites. And that is a roundtable discussion where we get all of the speakers up together to talk about themes, to ask each other questions, and to give you all one last time to pepper one, some, or all of our panelists with your own questions. I would ask that when you have a question, if it is or specific panelist, please name that panelist, or if you want to throw it open to some or all. We are going to ask dr. Gunter ....
Passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson and empire of the summer moon, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including national correspondence, Senior Editor with time, executive editor of texas monthly. Delighted to have you here this evening to discuss your latest book hymns of the republic, the story the final years of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is donald miller, the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber always who filed the air war against nazi germany, which is being developed as a miniseries produced by Stev ....
Call you sam. S. C gwynne is a graduate of princeton, Johns Hopkins where he and a masters degree in writing, he is the author of rebel yell the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson and empire of the summer moon, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including national correspondence, Senior Editor with time, executive editor of texas monthly. Delighted to have you here this evening to discuss your latest book hymns of the republic, the story the final years of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is donald miller, the author of several New York Times bestseller ....