Juliet Nicolson

Diplomatic daughters go behind the scenes at Yalta

Sarah Churchill, Kathy Harriman and Anna Roosevelt were horrified by what they saw on their trip to the Crimea, says Catherine Grace Katz

Sarah Churchill with the Big Three at the Tehran Conference in 1943. She would be Winston’s all-round protector, supporter and confidante at Yalta two years later. Credit: Alamy
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  • The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

    Catherine Grace Katz

    William Collins, pp. 416, £25

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