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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xv, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command, long-listed for the National Book Award, 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...