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Diana Preston

Diana Preston
Diana Preston is a prize-winning historian and the author of The Evolution of Charles Darwin, Eight Days at Yalta, A Higher Form of Killing, Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy, Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology), The Boxer Rebellion, Paradise in Chains, and A Pirate of Exquisite Mind, among other works of acclaimed narrative history. She and her husband, Michael, live in London.


The Naturalist’s Gaze: What Charles Darwin Saw in Tahiti

Diana Preston on the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Imperial Power in the South Pacific
October 13, 2022  By Diana Preston
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The Last Days at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Cold
War Begins

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later
February 11, 2020  By Diana Preston
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Days Five and Six at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: Secret Meetings and the Founding of the UN

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later
February 10, 2020  By Diana Preston
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Day Four at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: The Polish Problem

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later
February 7, 2020  By Diana Preston
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Day Three at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘The Whole Palace Was Bugged!’

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later
February 6, 2020  By Diana Preston
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Day Two at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: When Churchill Quoted Marx to Stalin

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later
February 5, 2020  By Diana Preston
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Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

Diana Preston's Day-By-Day Account of the Historic Summit, 75 Years Later
February 4, 2020  By Diana Preston
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