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Hamilton, Nigel

 
9781785901072: War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
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ISBN 10 : 1785901079 ISBN 13 : 9781785901072
Editeur : Biteback Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

In the much-anticipated conclusion to his masterful trilogy chronicling the wartime career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, renowned military and political biographer Nigel Hamilton aligns triumph with tragedy to show how FDR was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Providing the definitive account of the events in Normandy on 6 June 1944, Hamilton also reveals the fraught nature of the relationship between the greatest wartime leaders of the Allied forces.

Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews to counter the famous narrative of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs, Hamilton highlights the true significance of FDR's leadership. Seventy-five years after the D-Day landings, we finally see, close up and in dramatic detail, who was responsible for rescuing and insisting upon the great American-led invasion of France in June 1944, and exactly why that invasion was orchestrated by Eisenhower.

War and Peace is the rousing final installment in one of the most important historical biographies of the twenty-first century, which demonstrates how FDR s failing health only spurred him on in his efforts to build a US-backed post-war world order. In this stirring account of the life of one of the most celebrated political leaders of our time, Hamilton hails the President as the sole person capable of anticipating the requirements of peace in order to bring an end to the war.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nigel Hamilton is an award-winning biographer, academic and broadcaster whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. He is the author of a Whitbread Award-winning, three-volume official life of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the World War II Field Marshal, and biographies of Thomas Mann, JFK, Bill Clinton and many others. He lives in Boston.

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Éditeur
Biteback Publishing
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785901079
ISBN 13 
9781785901072
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
528
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Personne responsable
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