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Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

Edited by Geoffrey Roberts, By (author) Kathleen Harriman

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The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Â Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman. A journalist by background, she accompanied her father on his wartime postings to London and Moscow, where he served as FDRâ€™s envoy and later as US ambassador to the Soviet Union. Â She dined with Winston Churchill at Chequers, played bridge with General Eisenhower, and, in Moscow, banqueted with Stalin. She learnt Russian and soon became one of the best-known American women in the USSR. In her work as a journalist, Kathy visited war-torn cities and sites of covered-up atrocities. Â In more than two hundred letters, Harriman wrote all about these trips, people, and experiences. Deeply personal as well as highly political, her correspondence provides a fresh insight into the machinations of Second World War politics and diplomacy. In this fascinating account, Geoffrey Roberts brings together Harrimanâ€™s letters to tell the full story of her wartime life for the first time.