The mantle of command FDR at war, 1941-1942
"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 S...
| Main Author: | Hamilton, Nigel. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Placentia Bay. Before the storm
- Pearl Harbor. The U.S. is attacked! ; Hitler's gamble
- Churchill in the White House. The victory plan ; Supreme command ; The President's Map Room
- Trouble with MacArthur. The fighting general
- End of an empire. Singapore ; The mockery of the world ; The battleground for civilization
- India. No hand on the wheel ; Lessons from the Pacific ; Churchill threatens to resign ; The worst case of jitters
- Midway. Doolittle's Raid ; The Battle of Midway
- Tobruk. Churchill's second coming ; The Fall of Tobruk ; No second Dunquerque ; Avoiding utter catastrophe
- Japan first. Citizen warriors ; A staggering crisis ; A rough day
- The mutiny. Stimson's bet ; A definite decision ; A failed mutiny
- Reaction in Moscow. Stalin's prayer
- An industrial miracle. A trip across America ; The President's loyal lieutenant
- The tragedy of Dieppe. A Canadian bloodbath
- The torch is lit. Something in West Africa ; Alamein ; First light ; The greatest sensation ; Armistice Day.