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Author Winik, Jay, 1957- author.

Title 1944 : FDR and the year that changed history / Jay Winik.

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1652828~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  940.5373 WIN    AVAILABLE
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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.
Political leadership -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Influence.
Added Title FDR and the year that changed history
ISBN 9781439114087 (hardcover)
9781501125362 (trade pbk.)
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