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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
512 pages ; cm
Description
"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 under appreciated--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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xv, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel--suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs--of Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should take Sicily but avoid a wider battle in southern...
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