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The Mantle of Command

by Nigel Hamilton
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This intimate biography reveals how FDR took personal charge of the military during WWII: "Splendid . . . the memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times Book Review).
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful—and underappreciated—command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and tactics and overrode the near mutinies of his own generals and secretary of war.
Time and again, FDR was proven right and his allies and generals were wrong. When the generals wanted to attack the Nazi-fortified coast of France, FDR knew the Allied forces weren't ready. When Churchill insisted his Far East colonies were loyal and would resist the Japanese, Roosevelt knew it was a fantasy.
As Hamilton's account reaches its climax with the Torch landings in North Africa in late 1942, the tide of war turns in the Allies' favor and FDR's genius for psychology and military affairs is clear. The Mantle of Command "will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt" (Christian Science Monitor).
"Masterly." —Wall Street Journal
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Series: FDR at War Publisher: HarperCollins

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  • Release date: March 19, 2024

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  • ISBN: 9780547775258
  • Release date: March 19, 2024

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  • ISBN: 9780547775258
  • File size: 25595 KB
  • Release date: March 19, 2024
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This intimate biography reveals how FDR took personal charge of the military during WWII: "Splendid . . . the memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times Book Review).
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful—and underappreciated—command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and tactics and overrode the near mutinies of his own generals and secretary of war.
Time and again, FDR was proven right and his allies and generals were wrong. When the generals wanted to attack the Nazi-fortified coast of France, FDR knew the Allied forces weren't ready. When Churchill insisted his Far East colonies were loyal and would resist the Japanese, Roosevelt knew it was a fantasy.
As Hamilton's account reaches its climax with the Torch landings in North Africa in late 1942, the tide of war turns in the Allies' favor and FDR's genius for psychology and military affairs is clear. The Mantle of Command "will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt" (Christian Science Monitor).
"Masterly." —Wall Street Journal
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Biography & Autobiography History Military Nonfiction
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