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

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War (2020) is a non-fiction work by American author and historian Catherine Grace Katz. Katz narrates the events of the Yalta Conference—the last conference between the Allied powers during World War ll—focusing on three women who played a major role in the conference: Sarah Churchill, Kathleen Harriman, and Anna Roosevelt. Katz’s work reveals the personal and professional ambitions which informed these women’s relationships with their fathers, nations, and each other, and how they influenced the historic meeting at Yalta.

This guide uses the 2020 Kindle edition of this work published by HarperCollins.

Summary

The three major Allied powers—Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union—agreed to meet for a conference in Yalta, a holiday town on the Crimean Peninsula which was then part of the Soviet Union.

Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of Averell Harriman, the US ambassador to the Soviet Union. Kathleen arrived at Livadia Palace before the rest of the American delegation and prepared it for the conference. Sarah Churchill, the daughter of Winston Churchill, had been working as an aerial reconnaissance intelligence analyst with the

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