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

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Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the famous account of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs. Se...

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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ISBN:

9780544876804

Description:

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

Other Title:

FDR's final odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

Notes:

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

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2707760

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