1944 : : FDR and the Year That Changed History
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781439114087
1439114080
9781501125362
1501125362
SUBJECTS
Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- 1882-1945 -- Influence.
World War, 1939-1945.
Political leadership -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).