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Summary: The behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, Averell Harriman, and John Gilbert Winant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars OlsonRonald, Susan
Summary: "Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court ofSt. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOSEPH P. RONHamilton, Nigel
Summary: "Nigel Hamilton's Mantle of Command 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 Roosevelt's battles with Churchill to maintain that strategy. Roosevelt knew that the Allies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 HAMHamilton, Nigel.
Summary: A close-up, in-the-room look at how FDR took masterful command and control of the Second World War, from wresting key decisions away from Churchill and his own generals, to launching the first successful trial landing in North Africa, and beginning to turn the tide away from the Axis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5322 BERSwift, Will
Summary: Fresh interpretation of the ambassadorship of Joseph Kennedy and explores the intricate, often shifting relationships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and Roosevelt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KENNEDY FAMILY SwiftHamilton, Nigel
Summary: "Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and under appreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his personal command center--and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN HAMKimball, Warren F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5322 KIMMeacham, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 MEAMeacham, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MEABercuson, David Jay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5322 BERKelly, John
Summary: "In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain. And unofficially he was there to determine whether Josef Stalin -- the man who had starved four million Ukrainians to death in the early 1930s, another million in the purges of the late 1930s, and a further million in the labor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KELMcKean, David
Summary: "A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put,holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MCKButler, Susan
Summary: Draws on newly unclassified files to examine the relationship between the two world leaders, revealing FDR's methodical role in the reintroduction of religion in the Soviet Union and the related influence of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BUTKatz, Catherine Grace
Summary: "The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World WarII"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld KatzPreston, Diana
Summary: "While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin-the so-called "Big Three"-met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town ofYalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, while Soviet soldiers and NKVD men patrolled the grounds of the three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PREOlson, Lynne.
Summary: Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry into World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolationist factions as represented by the government, in the press, and on the streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 OLSRoll, David L.
Summary: Based on newly available sources, The Hopkins Touch is an absorbing, substantial new work that offers a fresh perspective on the World War II era and the Allied leaders, through the life of the man who kept them on point until the war was won.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.532 HOPKINS, HARRY ROLConroy, James B.
Summary: A character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. Churchill called it the most important Allied conclave of the war. Until now, it has never been explored in a full-length book. In a secret, no-holds-barred, ten-day debate in a Moroccan warzone,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 CONFullilove, Michael
Summary: Documents the lesser-known role of the President and five influential diplomats in overturning American isolationist beliefs and pulling the country into World War II, citing the reports that led to America's support of Great Britain and Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D FULBeschloss, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5314 BESOlson, Lynne
Summary: "When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 OLSMoorhouse, Roger
Summary: Explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and Soviets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 MOOLukacs, John
Summary: "The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with or to continue the war against Hitler. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's new book." "Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999