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The War Within World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Struggle for Diplomacy

Door Thomas Fleming

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#327495-XD19
Titel	The War Within World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Struggle for Diplomacy
Auteur	Fleming, Thomas
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	The Perseus Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	1903985021
ISBN13	9781903985021
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, price clipped dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Historian Thomas Fleming brings to life the flawed and troubled FDR who struggled to manage WWII. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan, then spiralling back to FDR's inept prewar diplomacy with Japan, and his various attempts to lure Japan into an attack on the US Fleet in the Pacific, Fleming takes the reader inside the incredibly fractious struggles and debates that went on in Washington, the nation and the world as FDR strove to impose his will on the conduct of the War. Unlike the idealized FDR of Doris Kearns Goodwin's "No Ordinary Time", here the reader encounters a Roosevelt in remorseless decline, battered by ideological forces and primitive hatreds which he could not handle - and frequently failed to understand - some of them leading t... (Lees verder)o unimaginable catastrophe. Among FDR's most dismaying policies, Fleming argues, were an insistence on "unconditional surrender" for Germany (a policy that perhaps prolonged the war by as many as two years, leaving millions more dead) and his often uncritical embrace of and acquiescence to Stalin and the Soviets as an ally.;For many people Franklin Delano Roosevelt is an almost mythical figure. "The War Within World War II" paints a very different portrait of this leadership. It is sure to spark debate.
Pagina's	628
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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