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Diplomatic daughters go behind the scenes at Yalta

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

17 October 2020

9:00 AM

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

William Collins, pp.416, 25

From Downing Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, history’s powerful inter-family influencers, whether spouses or children, have long operated behind weighty political front doors. With an unerring eye for the revealing detail, Catherine Grace Katz has uncovered a fascinating generational back-story to the Yalta summit of February 1945.

The three varyingly spirited daughters of Churchill, Roosevelt and Averell Harriman who accompanied their world-leading fathers to the freezing bleakness of the Crimea to thrash out terms for ending the second world war all played their crucial role.

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