1944 FDR and the year that changed history
It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved those democracies--but with a fateful cost. 1944 witnessed a series of titanic events: FDR at the pinn...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2015.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The sphinx
- Spring 1944 : everything all at once. Tehran ; "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day" ; Escape, part 1 ; Escape, part 2 ; "This is the year 1944" ; "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?"
- The road to 1944. Beginnings ; Mills of the gods ; Giant cemeteries ; Riegner ; 1943 ; "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews"
- The fateful decision. Trapped between knowing and not knowing ; The wind and the silence
- 1945
- Reckoning.
