Research Catalog

Title

War and peace : FDR's final odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945 / Nigel Hamilton.

Author

Hamilton, Nigel

Publication

• Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xiv, 578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"To mark the 75th anniversary of D-day, here is the final triumph--and tragedy--of FDR as U.S. wartime commander in chief, the Allies' key strategist, and prophet of the postwar world. Nigel Hamilton's view of FDR's leadership has revolutionized our understanding of Roosevelt, Churchill, and their competing strategies in World War II. In planning the African and Italian campaigns, FDR had to overcome Churchill's obsession with the Mediterranean and defeat the British prime minister's resistance to mounting D-day. In [this book], his tour de force covering the climactic events of 1944 and '45, Hamilton reveals FDR's genius at Allied leadership: the man most responsible for D-day, and the visionary who planned for a lasting peace he would not live to witness. In Hamilton's trademark detail, we see FDR design, defend, and ultimately insist on the great American-led invasion of France in June 1944, and why--and how--he appointed Eisenhower to command it. As FDR's D-day triumph turns to personal tragedy, however, we watch with heartbreaking compassion as coronary disease threatens his life. Yet how bravely thereafter the dying president attempts, at Hawaii, Quebec, and Yalta, to prepare the United Nations for an American-backed postwar world order. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the self-serving account of the war strategy given by Winston Churchill in his famous memoirs. Now at last we see FDR in his true role as the Allied mastermind of the war and the architect of postwar peace."--Dust jacket.

Subject

• Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
• World War (1939-1945)
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > United States
• World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history
• HISTORY / Military / World War II
• Diplomatic history
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-556) and index.

Contents

Going to see Stalin -- Stonewall Roosevelt -- Triumph in Tehran -- Who will command Overlord? -- In sickness and in health -- D-Day -- The July Plot -- Quebec -- Yalta -- Warm Springs.

Call Number

JFE 19-8812

ISBN

• 9780544876804
• 0544876806

LCCN

• 2018043601
• 40029230706

OCLC

1060182613

Author

Hamilton, Nigel, author.

Title

War and peace : FDR's final odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945 / Nigel Hamilton.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-556) and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Other Form:

Online version: Hamilton, Nigel, author. War and peace Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] 9780544868540 (DLC) 2018051359

Other Standard Identifier

40029230706

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8812