
The Mantle of Command
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A DRAMATIC, EYE-OPENING ACCOUNT OF HOW FDR TOOK PERSONAL CHARGE OF THE MILITARY DIRECTION OF WORLD WAR II Based 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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- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Prologue
- PART ONE: PLACENTIA BAY
- 1: Before the Storm
- PART TWO: PEARL HARBOR
- 2: The U.S. Is Attacked!
- 3: Hitler's Gamble
- PART THREE: CHURCHILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE
- 4: The Victory Plan
- 5: Supreme Command
- 6: The President's Map Room
- PART FOUR: TROUBLE WITH MACARTHUR
- 7: The Fighting General
- PART FIVE: END OF AN EMPIRE
- 8: Singapore
- 9: The Mockery of the World
- 10: The Battleground for Civilization
- PART SIX: INDIA
- 11: No Hand on the Wheel
- 12: Lessons from the Pacific
- 13: Churchill Threatens to Resign
- 14: The Worst Case of Jitters
- PART SEVEN: MIDWAY
- 15: Doolittle's Raid
- 16: The Battle of Midway
- PART EIGHT: TOBRUK
- 17: Churchill's Second Coming
- 18: The Fall of Tobruk
- 19: No Second Dunquerque
- 20: Avoiding Utter Catastrophe
- PART NINE: JAPAN FIRST
- 21: Citizen Warriors
- 22: A Staggering Crisis
- 23: A Rough Day
- PART TEN: THE MUTINY
- 24: Stimson's Bet
- 25: A Definite Decision
- 26: A Failed Mutiny
- PART ELEVEN: REACTION IN MOSCOW
- 27: Stalin's Prayer
- PART TWELVE: AN INDUSTRIAL MIRACLE
- 28: A Trip Across America
- 29: The President's Loyal Lieutenant
- PART THIRTEEN: THE TRAGEDY OF DIEPPE
- 30: A Canadian Bloodbath
- PART FOURTEEN: THE TORCH IS LIT
- 31: Something in West Africa
- 32: Alamein
- 33: First Light
- 34: The Greatest Sensation
- 35: Armistice Day
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A, B, C
- D, E, F
- G, H, I
- J, K, L
- M, N, O
- P, Q, R
- S, T, U
- V, W, X
- Y, Z
- Also by Nigel Hamilton
- Copyright
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