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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Truman, Harry S 1884-1972 United States Foreign relations 1933-1945 United States History 1933-1945 United States Politics and government 1933-1945 United States Politics and government 1939-1945 World politics 1933-1945 World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy World War, 1939-1945 United StatesLeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "In April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching the president's home where he was buried. It passed with darkened windows; few gave thought to what might be happening aboard. A closer look inside the train, however, would reveal a Soviet spy about to leak a state secret, a newly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2010
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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 OLSSpector, Ronald H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SPEGoodwin, Doris Kearns.
Summary: The United States of 1940, an isolationist country divided along class lines, still suffering the ravages of a decade-long depression, and woefully unprepared for war, was unified by a common threat and by the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become, only five years later, the preeminent economic and military power in the world. At the center of the country's transformation was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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Summary: "Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight--all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DRUHemming, Henry
Summary: "As World War II raged into its second year, Britain sought a powerful ally to join its cause-but the American public was sharply divided on the subject. Canadian-born MI6 officer William Stephenson, with his knowledge and influence in North America, was chosen to change their minds by any means necessary. In this extraordinary tale of foreign influence on American shores, Henry Hemming shows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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Summary: Describes how Franklin D. Roosevelt quietly used his power and all the tools he had to assist Winston Churchill in fighting the Axis long before the United States' official entry into World War II. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1944
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Summary: World War II - American troops arrive in Britain prep for invasion of France
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1944
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on four topics, as follows. Reel 1, Events within Germany leading to the present "power drive" in the West is shown in captured German newsreels. Theaters are shut down, women are drafted for war work, trolleys tow trucks to save gasoline, robot bombs are launched, and, at the front, the Nazi military carries on despite the appearance of American air fleets....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on eight topics, as follows. Reel 1, Reims, France: Nazi General Jodl and U.S. General W. B. Smith sign the surrender document ending World War II in Europe. Reel 2, N.Y.C.: 3,000 Nazi prisoners arrive in America--the last who will be sent to this country. Reel 3, Milan, Italy: An indignant mob kicks at the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress. Later, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on three topics, as follows. Reel 1, With Germany's complete capitulation, its leaders present diverse pictures as they are forced from their lairs into surrender. Hermann Goering seems dazed; Field Marshall von Rundstedt and his son are studies in unflinching Prussian militarism; and Field Marshal Kesselring seems amused at the prospect which awaits him. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Churchill speech after outbreak of war; says that Britons won't believe Nazi propaganda and won't quit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1939
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Summary: Bombing Helsinki - Russo/Finnish War Scenes
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1939
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Summary: World War II - Evacuation of BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from Dunkirk
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - Battle of Britain footage w/audio of Churchill speech praising RAF pilots for defending Britain; "never have so many owed so much to so few
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - Lend Lease. US made Lockheed bombers arrive in Great Britain
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - HMS Ajax & Exeter honored; Graf Spee sinking
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Mortar firing practice
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: Howitzers (6-inch)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - Petain Meets Hitler
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Summary: World War II - Nazis invade Russia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1941
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Summary: World War II - Soviet troops mobilize after “Operation Barbarossa”
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1941