
War and Peace
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In the much-anticipated conclusion to his masterful trilogy chronicling the wartime career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, renowned military and political biographer Nigel Hamilton aligns triumph with tragedy to show how FDR was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Providing the definitive account of the events in Normandy on 6 June 1944, Hamilton also reveals the fraught nature of the relationship between the greatest wartime leaders of the Allied forces.
Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews to counter the famous narrative of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs, Hamilton highlights the true significance of FDR's leadership. Seventy-five years after the D-Day landings, we finally 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 exactly why that invasion was orchestrated by Eisenhower.
War and Peace is the rousing final installment in one of the most important historical biographies of the twenty-first century, which demonstrates how FDR's failing health only spurred him on in his efforts to build a US-backed post-war world order. In this stirring account of the life of one of the most celebrated political leaders of our time, Hamilton hails the President as the sole person capable of anticipating the requirements of peace in order to bring an end to the war.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Maps
- Prologue
- Book One
- PART ONE: GOING TO SEE STALIN
- 1: A Trip to the Mediterranean
- 2: The Meeting Is On
- 3: Maximum Secrecy
- 4: Setting Sail
- 5: Sheer Madness
- 6: Churchill's Improper Act
- 7: Torpedo!
- 8: A Pretty Serious Set-to
- 9: Marshall: Commander in Chief Against Germany
- 10: A Witches' Brew
- 11: Fullest Guidance
- 12: On Board the Iowa
- 13: In the Footsteps of Scipio and Hannibal
- 14: Two Pieces in a Chess Game
- PART TWO: STONEWALL ROOSEVELT
- 15: Airy Visions
- 16: The American Sphinx
- 17: Churchill's "Indictment"
- 18: Showdown
- PART THREE: TRIUMPH IN TEHRAN
- 19: A Vision of the Postwar World
- 20: In the Russian Compound
- 21: The Grand Debate
- 22: A Real Scare
- 23: Impasse
- 24: Pricking Churchill's Bubble
- 25: War and Peace
- PART FOUR: WHO WILL COMMAND OVERLORD?
- 26: A Commander for Overlord
- 27: A Momentous Decision
- 28: A Bad Telegram
- 29: Perfidious Albion Redux
- 30: In the Field with Eisenhower
- 31: A Flap at Malta
- 32: Homeward Bound!
- 33: The Odyssey Is Over
- PART FIVE: IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH
- 34: Churchill's Resurrection
- 35: In the Pink at Hyde Park
- 36: Sick
- 37: Anzio
- 38: The President's Unpleasant Attitude
- 39: Crimes Against Humanity
- 40: Late Love
- 41: In the Last Stages of Consumption
- PART SIX: D-DAY
- 42: "This Attack Will Decide the War"
- 43: Simplicity of Purpose
- 44: The Hobcaw Barony
- 45: A Dual-Purpose Plan
- 46: D-day
- 47: The Deciding Dice of War
- 48: Architect of Victory
- 49: To Be, or Not to Be
- Book Two
- PART SEVEN: THE JULY PLOT
- 50: A Soldier of Mankind
- 51: Missouri Compromise
- 52: The July Plot
- PART EIGHT: HAWAII
- 53: War in the Pacific
- 54: Deus ex Machina
- 55: Slow Torture
- 56: In the Examination Room
- 57: A Terrible Mistake
- PART NINE: QUEBEC
- 58: A Redundant Conference
- 59: The Complete Setting for a Novel
- 60: Two Sick Men
- 61: Churchill's Imperial Wars
- 62: A Stab in the Armpit
- 63: The Morgenthau Plan
- 64: Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
- 65: The President Is Gaga
- PART TEN: YALTA
- 66: Outward Bound
- 67: Light of the President's Fading Life
- 68: Aboard the USS Quincy
- 69: Hardly in This World
- 70: "A Pretty Extraordinary Achievement"
- 71: One Ultimate Goal
- 72: In the Land of the Czars
- 73: The Atom Bomb
- 74: Riviera of Hades
- 75: Russian Military Cooperation
- 76: Making History
- 77: A Silent President
- 78: Kennan's Warning
- 79: A World Security Organization
- 80: Poland
- 81: Pulsus Alternans
- 82: The Prime Minister Goes Ballistic
- 83: The Yalta Communiqué
- 84: The End of Hitler's Dreams
- PART ELEVEN: WARM SPRINGS
- 85: King Odysseus
- 86: In the Well of Congress
- 87: Appeasers Become Warmongers
- 88: Mackenzie King's Last Visit
- 89: Operation Sunrise
- 90: No More Barbarossas!
- 91: The End
- Acknowledgments
- Photo Credits
- Index
- Also by Nigel Hamilton
- Copyright
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