
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A DRAMATIC, EYE-OPENING ACCOUNT OF HOW FDR TOOK PERSONAL CHARGE OF THE MILITARY DIRECTION OF WORLD WAR IIBased on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's masterful - and underappreciated - role as U.S. commander in chief during the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the UK, and begin to turn the tide of war in the Allies' favour. All the while, Hamilton's account drives toward Operation Torch – the invasion of French Northwest Africa – and reveals FDR's genius for psychology and military affairs.Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's Oval Office - 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. The first part of a major trilogy, The Mantle of Command explores the life of a man whose towering importance to the war is overlooked because of his untimely death. It is an intimate, sweeping examination of a great President in history's greatest conflict.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Prologue
- PART ONE: PLACENTIA BAY
- PART TWO: PEARL HARBOR
- PART THREE: CHURCHILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE
- PART FOUR: TROUBLE WITH MACARTHUR
- PART FIVE: END OF AN EMPIRE
- PART SIX: INDIA
- PART SEVEN: MIDWAY
- PART EIGHT: TOBRUK
- PART NINE: JAPAN FIRST
- PART TEN: THE MUTINY
- PART ELEVEN: REACTION IN MOSCOW
- PART TWELVE: AN INDUSTRIAL MIRACLE
- PART THIRTEEN: THE TRAGEDY OF DIEPPE
- PART FOURTEEN: THE TORCH IS LIT
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also by Nigel Hamilton
- Copyright