Originally published: New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-495) and index.
Contents:
Maps -- Prologue -- Part one: Placentia Bay. Before the storm -- Part two: Pearl Harbor. The U.S. is attacked! - Hitler's gamble -- Part three: Churchill in the White House. The victory plan - Supreme command - The President's map room -- Part four: trouble with MacArthur. The fighting general -- Part five: end of an empire. Singapore - The mockery of the world - The battleground for civilization -- Part six: India. No hand on the wheel - Lessons from the Pacific - Churchill threatens to resign - The worst case of jitters -- Part seven: Midway. Doolittle's raid - The battle of Midway -- Part eight: Tobruk. Churchill's second coming - The fall of Tobruk - No second Dunquerque - Avoiding utter catastrophe -- Part nine: Japan first. Citizen warriors - A staggering crisis - A rough day -- Part ten: the mutiny. Stimson's bet - A definite decision - A failed mutiny -- Part eleven: reaction in Moscow. Stalin's prayer -- Part twelve: an industrial miracle. A trip across America - The President's loyal lieutenant - Part thirteen: the tragedy of Dieppe. A Canadian bloodbath - Part fourteen: the torch is lit. Something ins West Africa - Alamein - First light - The greatest sensation - Armistice day -- Acknowledgments -- Photo credits -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the list surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, this book offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's masterful -- and underappreciated -- leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton's account drives toward Operation Torch -- the invasion of French Northwest Africa -- and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. This book is an intimate, sweeping look at a great President in history's greatest conflict.
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