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

Author: Winik, Jay, 1957-

Edition Statement:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Imprint:New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Descriptionxiii, 639 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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