“Skillfully written and meticulously researched, it’s an extraordinary work that reveals the human side underlying the politics…The Daughters of Yalta is a thoroughly engrossing book, as acute about the contentious politics of the day as it is about the remarkable daughters who participated.”

— The Wall Street Journal

"Well-researched, well-written, and evocative...Katz has produced a new, absorbing prism through which to view the tragedy that was Yalta.”

— Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“In 1945 an American president, his ambassador to the Soviet Union, and a British prime minister chose to make the trip to Yalta with their daughters in tow.  Over the next weeks those “second mates" served as their fathers’ eyes and ears, their tasters, confidantes, and chiefs of staff.  They gate-kept and play-acted, eradicated bedbugs, held their vodka, and offered up toasts, as Stalin cunningly put it, “to the broad sunlight of victorious peace.”  In a rich, captivating narrative, Catherine Grace Katz gives us a wholly original Yalta, one seen from a different gender and generation.”

— Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra and The Witches 

“Catherine Grace Katz’s Daughters of Yalta is a revelation. It’s a story of World War II, the origins of the Cold War, a key moment in diplomatic history, but above all a coming-of-age tale about three fascinating women in an extraordinary time.”

— Jeffrey Toobin, author of True Crimes and Misdemeanors and American Heiress

“Daughters of Yalta is an absorbing, revealing, and expertly crafted narrative that takes us behind the scenes of some of World War II’s most consequential periods of political leadership and diplomacy. Catherine Grace Katz possesses a novelist’s gift for character, and for how supposedly minor characters may influence and color the intimate movements of history.  A truly impressive debut.”

 — John Burnham Schwartz, Author of The Red Daughter and The Commoner 

“Daughters of Yalta is yet more proof that behind every great man is an army of exceptional women. We need their stories told; so three cheers for Catherine Katz!”

— Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire

"A singular take on the history of the Yalta Conference, viewed through the eyes of the three notable daughters who supported their famous fathers, the “Big Three,” and contributed in heretofore undocumented ways . . . A substantive debut work of first-rate scholarship . . . Katz effectively shows how these three often overlooked women proved to be indispensable in a variety of ways.  Engaging, multilayered history of the best kind, grounded in telling detail and marvelous personalities."

— Kirkus Reviews, starred review 

"From Downing Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, history’s powerful inter-family influencers, whether spouses or children, have long operated behind weighty political front doors. With an unerring eye for the revealing detail, Catherine Grace Katz has uncovered a fascinating generational back-story to the Yalta summit of February 1945....making superb use of unpublished diaries and letters....In Daughters of Yalta, the women’s keyhole perspective of these momentous negotiations humanises the Yalta summit as never before, shedding new insight on the minute-by-minute tensions of international diplomacy at a time when the future of millions depended on the outcome.”

— Juliet Nicolson, The Spectator

“Catherine Grace Katz skillfully guides us through the preparations, meetings, and aftermath of those eight days by the Black Sea…We are caught up in the moment of unfolding details, relationships, and personalities of the daughters along for the ride.”

— Air Mail

“An intricately detailed history . . . [Katz] offers an intimate portrait of the networks of friendships, shared professional histories, and other links that were forged in Anglo-American diplomatic circles and which shaped the conference's progress.” 

— Booklist

“What if Jane Austen could write meticulous diplomatic history combined with a social portrait of American and British aristocracy? The product might resemble The Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Grace Katz…Not unlike the novels of Jane Austen, Katz casts a spell as she relates the twists and turns in the lives of her main characters…Her account of the Yalta Conference is as informative as it is intriguing.”

— New York Journal of Books

“A splendid, colorful tapestry of details, as witnessed by three smart young women making the most of their extraordinary moment in history.”

— Bookpage

“The research is impressive…it is a riveting read and the detail is fascinating.”

— Anne de Courcy, The Telegraph

“A vivid and gripping tale of political drama and personal turmoil. Each figure Katz writes about leaps off the page with an astonishing array of desires, agendas and flaws that make them better characters than even the most experienced political thriller writer could draw…Katz has surely written one of the debut history books of the year. She should be congratulated for bringing three remarkable women, who witnessed such dark times, back into the light - where they belong.”

— Aspects of History