This is an extraordinary book that, among other things, tells of Franklin Roosevelt's conflicts with Churchill and the complicated story of what happened with Japan before the attack on Peal Harbor
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
by Nigel Hamilton
Book Browse - 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 under appreciated - command
of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White
House Oval Study - his personal command center - 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. This intimate, sweeping look at a great
president in history's greatest conflict is must reading.
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