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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evaluates the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt in saving the Jews during World War II, revealing a compassionate president torn by domestic and wartime priorities who did act in some circumstances to aid the Jews, despite opposition from his advisers.
10) Cautious crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American public opinion, and the war against Nazi Germany
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The masterfully told story of the unlikely men who came together to make the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. Author Cherny brings together newly unclassified documents, unpublished letters and diaries, and fresh primary interviews to tell the story of the ill-assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who not only saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat but changed how the...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world...