1944 : FDR and the year that changed history
(2015)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.5373/WINIK,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015
EDITION
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781439114087 (hardcover), 1439114080 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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