THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA

As the last battles of World War II were still being fought, the Allied forces gathered on the Crimean peninsula for what would be known as the Yalta Conference. Attending with their respective fathers were three fascinating women, the Daughters of Yalta Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman.

Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart wartime alliances among the so-called "Big Three" - US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin when victory was close at hand. With access to archives and unpublished letters, historian Catherine Katz uncovers the untold story of the three young women who were chosen by their famous fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce ambition and intertwined dramas that powerfully colored these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman, twenty-seven, was a champion skier, war correspondent, and daughter to US Ambassador to the USSR Averell Harriman. 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. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to a postwar 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. Catherine Grace Katz is a writer and historian. She received her MPhil in modern European history from the University of Cambridge in 2014 and is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School. The Daughters of Yalta is her first book.