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1 online resource |
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The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin, and of the fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II. Tensions during the Yalta Conference threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three daughters 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, daughter of US ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman, was a war correspondent and champion skier. 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. |
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Electronic reproduction. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 12275 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB). |
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Roosevelt, Anna, 1906-1975.
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Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982.
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Mortimer, Kathleen Lanier Harriman, 1917-2011.
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Yalta Conference (1945 : I︠A︡lta, Ukraine)
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Europe -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
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Electronic books.
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Original 9780358117858 |
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9780358117827 (electronic bk) |
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