Catherine Grac Katz - The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

Copyright 2020 by Catherine Grace Katz

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Names: Katz, Catherine Grace, author.

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

Other titles: Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war

Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020004935 (print) | LCCN 2020004936 (ebook) | ISBN 9780358117858 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780358117827 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Yalta Conference (1945 : Yalta, Ukraine) | World War, 19391945Diplomatic history. | Roosevelt, Anna, 19061975. | Churchill, Sarah, 19141982. | Mortimer, Kathleen Lanier Harriman, 19172011. | EuropeForeign relationsUnited States. | United StatesForeign relationsEurope.

Classification: LCC D734 .K28 2020 (print) | LCC D734 (ebook) | DDC 940.53/141dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004935

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004936

Excerpts from The Second World War, Volume VI: Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill. Copyright 1953 by Houghton Mifflin Company, renewed 1981 by the Honourable Lady Soames and the Honourable Lady Sarah Audley. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from A Love in Shadow by John R. Boettiger. Copyright 1978 by John R. Boettiger. Used by permission of John R. Boettiger. All rights reserved.

The author is grateful to reprint material from The Churchill Archives Centre and The Kathleen Harriman Mortimer Papers by kind permission of Allen Packwood and David Mortimer, respectively.

Cover design by Martha Kennedy

Cover photographs: Courtesy of the George C. Marshall Foundation of Lexington, VA / US Army Signal Corps (women); Courtesy of Newberry Library (Lividia Palace); David M. Schrader / Getty Images (clouds)

Author photograph Nina Subin

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This list serves to identify some of the individuals who feature prominently in this book. It contains only a small number of the hundreds present at the Yalta Conference. Note that some of these individuals had multiple titles. I have listed only those titles relevant to or easily recognizable based on their role in this story.

• Franklin D. RooseveltPresident of the United States

• Anna RooseveltFranklin Roosevelts daughter and aide-de-camp; also known as Anna Roosevelt Boettiger

• W. Averell HarrimanAmerican ambassador to the Soviet Union

• Kathleen (Kathy) HarrimanAverell Harrimans daughter

• Major General Frederick AndersonDeputy commanding general, U.S. Strategic Air Forces, Europe

• Charles BohlenAssistant to the secretary of state, interpreter to Franklin Roosevelt

• Lieutenant Commander Howard BruennPhysician to Franklin Roosevelt, cardiologist

• James ByrnesDirector, Office of War Mobilization

• Steve EarlyPress secretary

• Edward FlynnFormer chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Franklin Roosevelts friend

• Wilder FooteAssistant to the secretary of state

• Alger HissDeputy director, Office of Special Political Affairs, Department of State

• Harry HopkinsSpecial adviser to the president

• Sergeant Robert HopkinsHarry Hopkinss son, a U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer

• Admiral Ernest KingCommander in chief, U.S. Fleet; chief of naval operations

• Major General Laurence KuterAssistant chief of staff for plans, U.S. Army Air Force, representing Henry Hap Arnold, general of the army

• Fleet Admiral William LeahyChief of staff to the commander in chief (Franklin Roosevelt) of the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy

• General George MarshallChief of staff of the U.S. Army, general of the army

• H. Freeman MatthewsDirector, Office of European Affairs, Department of State

• Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntireSurgeon General, U.S. Navy; physician to Franklin Roosevelt

• Eddie PageSecond secretary and consul, American embassy, Moscow

• Edward R. StettiniusSecretary of state

• Major General Erwin Pa WatsonMilitary aide and secretary to Franklin Roosevelt; U.S. Army (Ret.)

• Winston ChurchillPrime minister

• Sarah ChurchillWinston Churchills daughter and aide-de-camp, section officer in the Womens Auxiliary Air Force; also known as Sarah Oliver

• Field Marshal Sir Harold AlexanderSupreme allied commander, Mediterranean theater of operations

• Major Arthur BirseInterpreter to Winston Churchill

• Field Marshal Sir Alan BrookeChief of the Imperial General Staff

• Sir Alexander CadoganPermanent undersecretary of state for foreign affairs

• Sir Archibald Clark-KerrBritish ambassador to the Soviet Union

• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew CunninghamFirst Sea Lord and chief of naval staff

• Anthony EdenForeign secretary

• General Sir Hastings Pug IsmayChief of staff to Winston Churchill, deputy secretary to the War Cabinet

• Lord MoranPhysician to Winston Churchill

• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Peter PortalChief of air staff

• Commander Charles Tommy ThompsonWinston Churchills aide-de-camp, Royal Navy

• Joseph StalinMarshal of the Soviet Union, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

• General Aleksei AntonovFirst deputy chief of staff, Soviet army

• Lavrentiy BeriaPeoples commissar for international affairs (NKVD)

• Sergo BeriaLavrentiy Berias son

• Andrei GromykoSoviet ambassador to the United States

• Fedor GusevSoviet ambassador to the United Kingdom

• Marshal Sergei KhudyakovDeputy chief of the Soviet air staff

• Fleet Admiral Nikolai KuznetsovPeoples commissar of the Soviet navy

• Ivan MaiskyDeputy peoples commissar for foreign affairs of the Soviet Union; former Soviet ambassador to the Court of St. Jamess (UK)

• Vyacheslav MolotovPeoples commissar for foreign affairs

• Vladimir PavlovInterpreter to Joseph Stalin

• Andrey VyshinskyFirst deputy peoples commissar for foreign affairs