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The daughters of Yalta : the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war  Cover Image Book Book

The daughters of Yalta : the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war / Catherine Grace Katz.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780358117858
  • ISBN: 0358117852
  • Physical Description: xiii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-380) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I: "She can handle them, and that's why they're going to take her." -- February 1, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2-3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- Part II: "As if . . . the Conference isn't so much more important than anything else." -- February 4, 1945 -- February 4, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 6, 1945 -- February 6-7, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 9-10, 1945 -- February 10-11, 1945 -- Part III: "All this, and more I have with me forever." -- April 12-July 27, 1945 -- After Yalta.
Subject: Roosevelt, Anna, 1906-1975.
Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982.
Mortimer, Kathleen Lanier Harriman, 1917-2011.
Yalta Conference (1945 : I͡Alta, Ukraine)
World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history.
Europe > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Europe.

Available copies

  • 19 of 20 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City. (Show)

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  • 1 current hold with 20 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library 940.531 KATZ 2020 (Text) 0001002373478 Nonfiction Available -
Cape Girardeau Public Library 940.531 KAT (Text) 33042004725563 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Caruthersville Public Library 940.531 KAT (Text) 38417100516212 Non-Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center 940.531 KAT 2020 (Text) 0002205662006 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Cedar County - Stockton 940.53141 KAT (Text) 3482700075603 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Jefferson County Library-Northwest 940.5314 KATZ (Text) 30051020238215 Non-Fiction Available -
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Keller Public Library-Dexter A 920 Kat (Text) 3376400005766 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Lebanon-Laclede County Library 940.531 Katz (Text) 3803718937 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly 940.531 KATZ (Text) 2004491086 Non-Fiction Shelves Available -


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