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War and Peace

FDR's Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

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War and Peace

By: Nigel Hamilton
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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To mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the famous account of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs.

Seventy-five years after the D-day landings, we finally get to 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 why the invasion was led by Eisenhower. As FDR's D-day triumph turns to personal tragedy, we watch with heartbreaking compassion the course of the disease, and how, in the months left him as US commander in chief, the dying president attempted at Hawaii, Quebec, and Yalta to prepare the United Nations for an American-backed postwar world order. Now we know: Even on his deathbed, FDR was the war's great visionary.

©2019 Nigel Hamilton (P)2019 Recorded Books
Americas Military Political Science Politicians Politics & Activism Politics & Government Presidents & Heads of State United States World War Franklin D Roosevelt Winston Churchill Imperialism Dwight Eisenhower

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I recommend this book and putting up with the rather boring reading style of the narrator. It is controversial in its portrayal of Winston Churchill and something of an antidote to Churchill’s personal point of view. It is worth reading in conjunction with Wheatcroft’s, Churchill’s Shadow. They complement one another. Wheatcroft’s Book is enlivened by its narrator – in contrast Hamilton’s.

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Interesting perspective but spoilt by a somewhat petty and narrow viewpoint of Winston Churchill’s leading role and contribution in the stand against Hitler. A bit of a chip on the shoulder methinks.

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