The Daughters Of Yalta, Catherine Grace Katz
The Daughters Of Yalta, Catherine Grace Katz
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The Daughters Of Yalta
The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

Author: Catherine Grace Katz

Narrator: Christine Rendel

Unabridged: 14 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/29/2020


Synopsis

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.

Narrated by Christine Rendel

About Catherine Grace Katz

CATHERINE GRACE KATZ is a writer and historian from Chicago. She holds degrees in history from Harvard and Cambridge and is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on October 26, 2023

An important work lacking a strong narrative and should have been half as long This is a non-fictional work which focuses on three daughters who attended The Yalta Conference in 1945. The Yalta Conference occurred right before the end of World War II when the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union gathere......more

Goodreads review by Jean on June 19, 2021

This is an interesting take on an almost forgotten summit meeting in Yalta near the end of WWII. The book is well written and researched. I learned a few new items about the meeting in Yalta; but, I also learned something about each of these daughters of Churchill, Roosevelt and Harriman. It was grea......more

Goodreads review by David on December 12, 2020

I saw The Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Katz on the shelf at the library and it immediately caught my attention. I read Witness by Whittaker Chambers a couple years ago, and since then I have been interested in the Soviet infiltration of America prior to the start of the Cold War. I was particular......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on November 25, 2023

Digital audiobook read by Christine Rendel Subtitle: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War When the Allied leaders chose to meet at Yalta for a summit concerning strategy for finally ending World War II, three young women, each a daughter of a key player, were asked to co......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on July 13, 2020

Daughters of Yalta is a thorough chronology given of the February 1945 Yalta Conference, through the experience and lens of three impressive father daughter teams in attendance during those momentous days. Those preparing for the Yalta conference had great hopes for proposing, persuading and settling......more