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    Summary of Catherine Grace Katz's The Daughters Of Yalta
    Summary of Catherine Grace Katz's The Daughters Of Yalta
    Summary of Catherine Grace Katz's The Daughters Of Yalta
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    Summary of Catherine Grace Katz's The Daughters Of Yalta

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    Book Preview: #1 In 1945, the palace was transformed into a Soviet sanatorium for favored workers needing rest, quiet, and treatment for tuberculosis. The Nazis had stolen everything, even the brass doorknobs.

    #2 By late 1944, British and American forces had liberated Rome, Paris, Brussels, and Athens from German and Italian occupation. The Red Army had marched westward across Poland and Romania. The three leaders were facing complicated questions about the end of the war in Europe.

    #3 The leaders decided that the second conference would be held in the Mediterranean, but Stalin claimed his health was too fragile to travel any further than his own country’s borders. The western leaders reluctantly agreed to meet him in the Crimea.

    #4 The three leaders would gather at Yalta, and the Soviets had just three weeks to turn the ransacked villas into a site fit for one of the largest and most important international summits in history.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMar 1, 2022
    ISBN9781669354475
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      #1

      In 1945, the palace was transformed into a Soviet sanatorium for favored workers needing rest, quiet, and treatment for tuberculosis. The Nazis had stolen everything, even the brass doorknobs.

      #2

      By late 1944, British and American forces had liberated Rome, Paris, Brussels, and Athens from German and Italian occupation. The Red Army had marched westward across Poland and Romania. The three leaders were facing complicated questions about the end of the war in Europe.

      #3

      The leaders decided that the second conference would be held in the Mediterranean, but Stalin claimed his health was too fragile to travel any further than his own country’s borders. The western leaders reluctantly agreed to meet him in the Crimea.

      #4

      The three leaders would gather at Yalta, and the Soviets had just three weeks to turn the ransacked villas into a site fit for one of the largest and most important international summits in history.

      #5

      Averell Harriman was the American ambassador to Britain before the war, and he was assigned to Moscow after the war began. He left his daughter Kathy to prepare Spaso House, the American ambassador’s residence, for the conference.

      #6

      Averell Harriman, the chairman of Union Pacific Railroad, created the ski resort town of Sun Valley in Idaho. He left Kathy in charge of the resort while he went on trips around the world. She developed a passion for skiing there.

      #7

      The Soviets were frantically restocking the villas with whatever they could spare from Moscow’s luxury hotels. The Americans spray-painted the furniture with a 10 percent solution of DDT in kerosene, and dusted all the linens with DDT powder, but even that did not get rid of the bugs entirely.

      #8

      Kathy was the American delegation’s hostess and protocol officer. She was in charge of organizing parties and managing the house staff, but she also had to anticipate and eliminate all potential sources of cultural confusion, irritation, or distraction.

      #9

      Kathy went from room to room at Livadia, checking on the arrangements, and making sure everything was perfect. She was in charge of the president’s suite, which had an atmosphere of overbearing darkness.

      #10

      Rooming assignments required strategic thinking. There were not enough private bedrooms in the palace to accommodate everyone who deserved the finest suites in New York’s or London’s most exclusive hotels. The bedrooms on the first floor were reserved for Averell’s closest government advisers.

      #11

      Averell’s second wife, Marie, should have been the one to accompany him, but because of trouble with her eyesight, she had elected to remain in New York. Averell encouraged Kathy to go in her place.

      #12

      In 1941, Kathy joined her father in Moscow, where she worked for the International News Service and later for Newsweek. She was thrilled

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