The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
By (Author) Nigel Hamilton
Biteback Publishing
Biteback Publishing
1st June 2016
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern warfare
Political leaders and leadership
History of the Americas
940.541273
Physical Properties
Hardback
528
Description
Based on years of archival research and interviews with the lastsurviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamiltonoffers a definitive account of FDR's masterful andunderappreciated command of the Allied wareffort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House OvalOffice his personal command centre and into themeetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy andtactics and overrode the near mutinies of his own generals andsecretary of war.
Reviews
"The Mantle of Command is splendid: It's the memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write." - New York Times Book Review; "Masterly." Wall Street Journal; "Deeply engrossing ... Lively, elucidating, elegant, and highly knowledgeable." - Kirkus Reviews
Author Bio
Nigel Hamilton is an award-winning biographer, academic and broadcaster, whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. He is the author of a Whitbread Award-winning, three-volume official life of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the World War II Field Marshal, and biographies of Thomas Mann, JFK, Bill Clinton and many others. He lives in Boston.
