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"Thomas Parrish's account of Anglo-American relations in 1941 is a carefully researched and deftly written slice of history showing FDR's hidden hand at work. It is a lesson on the virtues of diplomacy." - Ted Morgan, author of CHURCHILL
Parrish's book brings Hopkins and Harriman vividly to life--each was indeed a character, and the author's perception of FDR's thinking is exceptionally sensitive. For historians most useful. For the rest of us a...
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"The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II Tensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three...
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Fullilove demonstrates that America's global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century was enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his five extraordinary representatives from 1939-1941. Together these men and their president took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world.
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Random House
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©1975
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"This masterful narrative, written by Elie Abel and based on Averall Harriman's personal recollections as well as his voluminous and revealing private papers, re-creates and explains the climate in which many of the most important strategic and political decisions were made during World War II, and casts new light on the motivations and personalities of the leaders who made them."--Inside jacket cover.
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Recorded Books
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p2013
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Fullilove demonstrates that America's global primacy in the second half of the twentieth century was enabled by the earlier work of Roosevelt and his five extraordinary representatives from 1939-1941. Together these men and their president took the United States into the war and, by defeating domestic isolationists and foreign enemies, into the world.
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