1944

FDR and the year that changed history

639 pages

English language

Published April 30, 2015 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-1-4391-1408-7
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OCLC Number:
907811060

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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. 1944 witnessed a series of titanic events: FDR at the pinnacle of his wartime leadership as well as his reelection, the planning of Operation Overlord with Churchill and Stalin, the unprecedented D-Day invasion and the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and the tumultuous conferences that finally shaped the coming peace. But on the way, millions of more lives were still at stake as President Roosevelt was exposed to mounting evidence of the most grotesque crime in history, the Final Solution. Just as the Allies were landing in Normandy, the Nazis were accelerating the killing of European Jews. Winik shows how escalating pressures fell on …

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Subjects

  • Weltkrieg
  • Political leadership
  • Influence
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Shoah
  • World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866
  • Guerre mondiale (1939-1945)
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • History

Places

  • United States
  • États-Unis