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From Nigel Hamilton's acclaimed World War II saga, the astonishing story of FDR's yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy.
1943 was the year of Allied military counteroffensives, beating back the forces of the Axis powers in North Africa and the Pacific--the "Hinge of Fate," as Winston Churchill called it. In Commander in Chief, Nigel Hamilton reveals FDR's true role in this saga: overruling his own Joint Chiefs of Staff, ordering American airmen on an ambush of the Japanese navy's Admiral Yamamoto, facing down Churchill when he attempted to abandon Allied D-day strategy (twice). This FDR is profoundly different from the one Churchill later painted. President Roosevelt's patience was tested to the limit quelling the prime minister's "revolt," as Churchill pressured Congress and senior American leaders to focus Allied energy on disastrous fighting in Italy and the Aegean instead of landings in Normandy. Finally, in a dramatic showdown at Hyde Park, FDR had to stop Churchill from losing the war by making the ultimate threat, setting the Allies on their course to final victory.
In Commander in Chief, Hamilton masterfully chronicles the clash of nations--and of two titanic personalities--at a crucial moment in modern history.
Author: Nigel Hamilton
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780544944466
ISBN10: 0544944461
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads of State
- History | United States | 20th Century
1943 was the year of Allied military counteroffensives, beating back the forces of the Axis powers in North Africa and the Pacific--the "Hinge of Fate," as Winston Churchill called it. In Commander in Chief, Nigel Hamilton reveals FDR's true role in this saga: overruling his own Joint Chiefs of Staff, ordering American airmen on an ambush of the Japanese navy's Admiral Yamamoto, facing down Churchill when he attempted to abandon Allied D-day strategy (twice). This FDR is profoundly different from the one Churchill later painted. President Roosevelt's patience was tested to the limit quelling the prime minister's "revolt," as Churchill pressured Congress and senior American leaders to focus Allied energy on disastrous fighting in Italy and the Aegean instead of landings in Normandy. Finally, in a dramatic showdown at Hyde Park, FDR had to stop Churchill from losing the war by making the ultimate threat, setting the Allies on their course to final victory.
In Commander in Chief, Hamilton masterfully chronicles the clash of nations--and of two titanic personalities--at a crucial moment in modern history.
Author: Nigel Hamilton
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780544944466
ISBN10: 0544944461
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads of State
- History | United States | 20th Century
About the Author
NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer, and the author of The Mantle of Command, long-listed for the National Book Award. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston.