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Averell Harriman
Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Katz: “A Story of Love and War”
31
Mar
2021
By CITA STELZER
The story of the Churchill, Harriman and Roosevelt daughters at the Yalta Conference was unnoticed until this account by Catherine Katz.
Great Contemporaries: Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
05
Jan
2021
2
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Pamela Harriman, said Jacques Chirac, was “elegance itself...a peerless diplomat.” That old Francophile, her father-in-law, would have smiled.
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The Terror and Splendor of the Blitz, finely related by Erik Larson
18
Mar
2020
By ANDREW ROBERTS
The Splendid and the Vile is the story of the London Blitz, from the moment that Winston Churchill became prime minister on 10 May 1940, until the Luftwaffe raid that destroyed the parts of the House of Commons exactly one year later, coincidentally on the same night that Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland.
“That Neutral Island”: Ireland in World War II (with apologies to Clair Wills*)
16
Aug
2019
By WARREN F. KIMBALL
Whatever arguments we might make about Ireland in the Second World War, they will help us better to understand the dynamics of today’s relationships between the great powers.