The Daughters of Yalta
- Author Catherine Grace Katz
- Narrator Christine Rendel
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 29 September 2020
- Run Time 14 hours and 55 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Diplomacy, History and Archaeology, Politics and government, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
u2018A vivid portrait of one of historyu2019su00a0great international summits through the eyes of three young women, each au00a0daughter of a key participant. We get the inside story, and learn theu00a0compelling details that bring history to lifeu2019
Erik Larson
u2018A stirring account of one momentous week that would unleash fifty years of tyranny for half of Europe and plunge the world into the Cold War u2026 A marvellous and extraordinary work that reveals the human experience of the conference, with all its tragedy, love, betrayal, and even humouru2019
Julian Fellowes
u2018A revelation. Itu2019s a story of World War II, the origins of the Cold War, a key moment in diplomatic history, but above all a coming-of-age tale about three fascinating women in an extraordinary time.u2019
Jeffrey Toobin
u2018Both intimate and sweeping u2026 vividly captures a little known story against the backdrop of a very big one. Meticulously researched and emotionally gripping.u2019
Amy Pascal
u2018Yet more proof that behind every great man is an army of exceptional women. We need their stories told; so three cheers for Catherine Katzu2019
Amanda Foreman
u2018Making superb use of unpublished diaries and letters, Katz demonstrates how illness, clandestine romance and fraying political relationships ran alongside the tortured negotiations that would shape the post-conflict world u2026 The womenu2019s keyhole perspective of these momentous negotiations humanises the Yalta summit as never before, shedding new insight on the minute-by-minute tensions of international diplomacy at a time when the future of millions depended on the outcomeu2019
Spectator
u2018This entertaining history is packed with vivid personalities, jockeying aides and insider observations about a pivotal moment in historyu2019
New York Times Book Review
u2018The research is impressive u2026 It is a riveting read and the detail is fascinating u2026 Oh, to have been a fly on the wallu2019
Anne de Courcy, Daily Telegraph
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