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The daughters of Yalta : the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war / Catherine Grace Katz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]Description: xiii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780358117858
  • 0358117852
Other title:
  • Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of family, love, and war
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Contents:
Part I: "She can handle them, and that's why they're going to take her." -- February 1, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2-3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- Part II: "As if . . . the Conference isn't so much more important than anything else." -- February 4, 1945 -- February 4, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 6, 1945 -- February 6-7, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 9-10, 1945 -- February 10-11, 1945 -- Part III: "All this, and more I have with me forever." -- April 12-July 27, 1945 -- After Yalta.
Summary: "The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.



Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days.



Kathleen Harriman was a champion skier, war correspondent, and daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind. Roosevelt's only daughter, Anna, chosen instead of her mother Eleanor to accompany the president to Yalta, arrived there as keeper of her father's most damaging secrets. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to a post- war world, The Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable story of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened by the history they witnessed and the future they crafted together.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: "She can handle them, and that's why they're going to take her." -- February 1, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2-3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- Part II: "As if . . . the Conference isn't so much more important than anything else." -- February 4, 1945 -- February 4, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 6, 1945 -- February 6-7, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 9-10, 1945 -- February 10-11, 1945 -- Part III: "All this, and more I have with me forever." -- April 12-July 27, 1945 -- After Yalta.

"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

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