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  • Finest Hour

    A Distaff Big Three

    Nov 05, 2020 4 minutes
    Review by Anne Sebba

    When Sarah Churchill found herself next to NKVD Chief Lavrenty Beria at a banquet hosted by Stalin at the end of the Yalta Conference, she tried out her best textbook Russian phrases on him, such as “Can I have a hot water bottle please?” In response Beria leered at her and said, with former Soviet ambassador Ivan Maisky translating, “I cannot believe that you need one! Surely there is enough fire in you!”

    Sarah, the elegant red-headed daughter of the British prime minister, was unfazed, perfectly able to hold her own with the murderous head of the

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