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The Daughters of Yalta - The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - a Story of Love and War (Hardcover)
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The Daughters of Yalta - The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - a Story of Love and War (Hardcover)
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The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna
Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous,
fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the
Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II.
With victory close at hand, the Yalta conference was held across a
tense week in February 1945 as Franklin Roosevelt, Winston
Churchill and Joseph Stalin attempted to agree on an end to the
war, and to broker post-war peace. In Daughters of Yalta, Catherine
Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who
travelled with their fathers to the Yalta conference, each bound by
fierce ambition and intertwined romances that powerfully coloured
these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman, twenty-seven, was a champion
skier, war correspondent, and daughter to US Ambassador to Russia
Averell Harriman. She acted as his translator and arranged much of
the conference's fine detail. Sarah Churchill, an
actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father,
who in turn depended on her astute political mind. FDR's only
daughter, Anna, chosen over Eleanor Roosevelt to accompany the
president to Yalta, arrived there as holder of her father's most
damaging secret. Telling the little-known story of the huge role
these women played in a political maelstrom and the shaping of a
post-war world, Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable account of
behind-the-scenes female achievement, and of fathers and daughters
whose relationships were tested and strengthened in their joint
effort to shape one of the most precarious periods of recent
history.
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