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The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
| Title | The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War |
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| Date | 2024-11-26 07:56:29 |
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Desciption
The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference’s fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II. Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women 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 was a champion skier, war correspondent, and daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman. 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.
Review
An important work lacking a strong narrative and should have been half as longThis is a non-fictional work which focuses on three daughters who attended The Yalta Conference in 1945. The Yalta Conference occurred right before the end of World War II when the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union gathered to discuss how the world would operate after the war, in peace time. The three daughters were Sarah Churchill (daughter of Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill), Anna (daughter of the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Kathy Harriman (daughter of the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union).This book should have been right up my alley – it is meticulously researched, has strong female characters, and appeals to the Anglophile in me.But I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room after I finished reading this.Because I was so bored.There are so many characters in The Daughters of Yalta, and the author tries to cover too much ground in the book. There are so many historical events (not just what takes place at Yalta) and background family information. The writing style was not easily consumable with many large jumbo paragraphs that read more like an encyclopedia than a TED talk.After The Yalta Conference ended, the book still went on for another hour. A work that acknowledges the contribution of women to history but needs stronger editing and better formatting.Connect With Me!Blog Twitter BookTube Facebook Insta
