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1944 : FDR and the year that changed history Cover Image Book

1944 : FDR and the year that changed history / Jay Winik.

Nineteen forty four : (other title)
FDR and the year that changed history. (portion title)
Winik, Jay, 1957- (author.).

Summary:

"The best-selling author of April 1865 chronicles the events of 1944 to reveal how the Allies nearly lost World War II, citing the pivotal contributions of FDR, Churchill and Stalin." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781439114087
  • ISBN: 1439114080
  • ISBN: 9781501125362
  • Physical Description: xiii, 639 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prelude: The sphinx -- Part I. Spring 1944: everything all at once -- Tehran -- "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day." -- Escape -- Escape, part two -- "This is the year 1944" -- "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?" -- Part II. The road to 1944 -- Beginnings -- Mills of the gods -- Giant cemeteries -- Riegner -- 1943 -- "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews" -- Part III. The fateful decision -- Trapped between knowing and not knowing -- The wind and the silence -- Part IV. 1945 -- Reckoning.

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Subject: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 > Influence.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Political leadership > United States > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

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