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1944, FDR and the year that changed history, Jay Winik

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1944, FDR and the year that changed history, Jay Winik

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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platesmapsphotographs

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

1944

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jay Winik

Sub title

FDR and the year that changed history

Summary

Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt. It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved those democracies--but with a fateful cost

Table Of Contents

Prelude: The sphinx -- Part one. Spring 1944: everything all at once -- Tehran -- "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day" -- Escape, part 1 -- Escape, part 2 -- "This is the year 1944" -- "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?" -- Part two. The road to 1944 -- Beginnings -- Mills of the gods -- Giant cemeteries -- Riegner -- 1943 -- "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of the Jews" -- Part three. The fateful decision -- Trapped between knowing and not knowing -- The wind and the silence -- Part four. 1945 -- Reckoning

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