{"product_id":"mantle-of-command-1-book-nigel-hamilton-9780547775241","title":"The Mantle of Command, 1","description":"\u003cb\u003e This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt. \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Masterly. \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members, \u003ci\u003eThe Mantle of Command\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt s masterful and underappreciated leadership of the Allied war effort. After the disaster of Pearl Harbor, we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese, rescue Churchill and the British people, and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while, Hamilton s account drives toward Operation Torch the invasion of French Northwest Africa and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. \u003ci\u003eThe Mantle of Command\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate, sweeping look at a great President in history s greatest conflict.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e [Author photo] (c) Frank Monkiewicz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NIGEL HAMILTON is a best-selling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard Monty Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and was the first president of the Biographers International Organization.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49543273480465,"sku":"GOR007561980","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49769396764945,"sku":"CIN0547775245G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352774873361,"sku":"CIN0547775245A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50577467932945,"sku":"CIN0547775245VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0547775245.jpg?v=1751104648","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/products\/mantle-of-command-1-book-nigel-hamilton-9780547775241","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}