Description |
xiii, 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-602) and index. |
Contents |
Prelude: The sphinx -- Part I. Spring 1944: everything all at once -- Tehran -- "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day." -- Escape -- Escape, part two -- "This is the year 1944" -- "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?" -- Part II. The road to 1944 -- Beginnings -- Mills of the gods -- Giant cemeteries -- Riegner -- 1943 -- "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews" -- Part III. The fateful decision -- Trapped between knowing and not knowing -- The wind and the silence -- Part IV. 1945 -- Reckoning. |
Subject |
World War, 1939-1945.
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Political leadership -- History -- 20th century.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Influence.
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Added Title |
FDR and the year that changed history |
ISBN |
9781439114087 (hardcover) |
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9781501125362 (trade pbk.) |
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