The Daughters of Yalta

The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans – A Story of Love and War

De: Catherine Grace Katz

Narrado por: Christine Rendel

Duración: 14 h y 54 m

Resumen del Editor

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 at 27 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.

©2020 Catherine Grace Katz (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Catherine Grace Katz paints a vivid portrait of one of history’s great international summits through the eyes of three young women, each a daughter of a key participant. We get the inside story, and learn the compelling details that bring history to life." (Erik Larson, number one New York Times best-selling author)

"A 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, as seen through the eyes of three young women.... A marvellous and extraordinary work that reveals the human experience of the conference, with all its tragedy, love, betrayal, and even humour. She defines the relationships that shaped our world, and continue to shape our future." (Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey)

"An absorbing, revealing, and expertly crafted narrative. A truly impressive debut." (John Burnham Schwartz)