Commander in Chief: FDRs Battle with Churchill, 1943 - Nigel Hamilton
Category: History
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In the next installment of the splendid memoir Roosevelt didnt get to write (New York Times), Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDRs year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy., Nigel Hamiltons Mantle of Command, long-listed for the National Book Award, drew on years of archival research and interviews to portray FDR in a tight close up, as he determined Allied strategy in the crucial initial phases of World War II. Commander in Chief reveals the astonishing sequel suppressed by Winston Churchill in his memoirs of Roosevelts battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies should take Sicily but avoid a wider battle in southern Europe, building experience but saving strength to invade France in early 1944. Churchill seemed to agree at Casablanca only to undermine his own generals and the Allied command, testing Roosevelts patience to the limit. Churchill was afraid of the invasion planned for Normandy,
