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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (2016)

door Nigel Hamilton

Reeksen: FDR at War (2)

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"Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel--suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs--of Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should take Sicily but avoid a wider battle in southern Europe, building experience but saving strength to invade France in early 1944. Churchill seemed to agree at Casablanca--only to undermine his own generals and the Allied command, testing Roosevelt's patience to the limit. Churchill was afraid of the invasion planned for Normandy, and pushed instead for disastrous fighting in Italy, thereby almost losing the war for the Allies. In a dramatic showdown, FDR finally set the ultimate course for victory by making the ultimate threat. Commander in Chief shows FDR in top form at a crucial time in the modern history of the West."--… (meer)

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5554. Commander in Chief FDR's Battle With Churchill, 1943 by Nigel Hamilton (read 30 Apr 2018) This is the second volume in the author's study of FDR as commander in chief of the American effort in World War II. It shows that he was usually right and that Churchill was often wrong, but fortunately FDR's views usually prevailed. The book spends a lot of time telling of somewhat trivial events but is a good account showing the difficulties that went into the planning. Churchill was hard to get on board for the invasion of France, he wanting to go to the Balkans or stay with Italy as ,the major place to fight. Fortunately FDR was able to get our generals to agree that the Normandy invasion should be powerfully pushed, I am not sure it was necessary to read this but it is a good review of the time. I think Rick Atkinson's books do a better job of telling of the actual fighting but this book covers the planning better than Atkinson'.s books do, (

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An analytical and well-written look at the decision-making process for the Allies as the US builds momentum and assumes the leadership role. Two of history's most important war leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt support and challenge each other as they build the teams and global strategies for final victory. England was out of men, yet expected that their longer experience should lead the Allies end game and re-establish the British Empire to its former glory. FDR, rightfully, demands that US generals will lead the way and makes the right choice in Eisenhower. Hamilton provides an interesting counterpoint to the Allied perspective with apt excerpts from Goebbels diary. (

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FDR at War Boxed Set: The Mantle of Command, Commander in Chief, and War and Peace door Nigel Hamilton

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It was late in the evening of Saturday, January 9, 1943, when a locomotive pulling Ferdinand Magellan and four further carriages departed from a special siding beneath the Bureau of Engraving in Washington, D.C. - the federal government's massive printing house for paper money, and thus a sort of Fort Knox of the capital.

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"Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel--suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs--of Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should take Sicily but avoid a wider battle in southern Europe, building experience but saving strength to invade France in early 1944. Churchill seemed to agree at Casablanca--only to undermine his own generals and the Allied command, testing Roosevelt's patience to the limit. Churchill was afraid of the invasion planned for Normandy, and pushed instead for disastrous fighting in Italy, thereby almost losing the war for the Allies. In a dramatic showdown, FDR finally set the ultimate course for victory by making the ultimate threat. Commander in Chief shows FDR in top form at a crucial time in the modern history of the West."--

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