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The mantle of command FDR at war, 1941-1942

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"Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and underappreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his perso...

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Main Author: Hamilton, Nigel
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history.
Command of troops > Case studies.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
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Summary:"Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and underappreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his personal command center--and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and tactics and overrode the near mutinies of his own generals and secretary of war. Time and again, FDR was proven right and his allies and generals were wrong. When the generals wanted to attack the Nazi-fortified coast of France, FDR knew the Allied forces weren't ready. When Churchill insisted his Far East colonies were loyal and would resist the Japanese, Roosevelt knew it was a fantasy. As Hamilton's account reaches its climax with the Torch landings in North Africa in late 1942, the tide of war turns in the Allies' favor and FDR's genius for psychology and military affairs is clear. This intimate, sweeping look at a great president in history's greatest conflict is must reading." -- Publisher's description.
An in-depth analysis of FDR's leadership during the Second World War reveals how he assumed control over key decisions to launch a successful trial landing in North Africa to shift the war in favor of Allied forces.
Physical Description:xiv, 514 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-495) and index.
ISBN:9780547775241
0547775245
9780544227842
0544227840
Author Notes:NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard Monty" Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. His most recent book , The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942, was long-listed for the National Book Award. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and splits his time between Boston, Massachusetts, and New Orleans, Louisiana."

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