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Sto caricando le informazioni... 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed Historydi Jay Winik
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is an amazing book which focuses of the meetings of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. Primarily, the author notes again and again the lack of assistance to get Jews out of the clutches of Hitler and his henchmen. It truly was more important to Hitler to handle "the Jewish problem," than fighting to end the war. Tragically, Roosevelt did very little to allow Jews to enter the United States. England, in the midst of continual night bombing, allowed ten thousand children (the Kindertransport,) to enter the country and be taken in by various English households. The attitude of the United States and in particular, those who were anti sematic in Roosevelt's cabinet, who strongly advised Roosevelt to turn his back on this incredibly sad, tragic mission of the Nazi's. Eleanor, the lovely person she was who fought not only for civil rights after the war, but repeatedly sent missives to FDR "What are you going to do?" Clearly, she knew something had to happen to save the Jews. She was indeed very disappointed in her husband. As he attended many conferences about the distribution of Europe when the war ended, his health was in dire condition. He could barely function at the conferences. This book can easily be read as a history of FDR's role in World War Two, as the author spends enough time on background that years before 1944 and the first few months of 1945 are covered as well as the critical year of 1944. What I found most interesting about this book is the discussion of the Holocaust and what the Allied Powers knew about it during the war years (having been previously somewhat uninformed on this topic). I learned a lot from this book and came away with a very different sense of the war and Holocaust than I had before. 5334. 1944 FDR and the Year That Changed History, by Jay Winik (read 16 Dec 2015) I much appreciated Winik's book, April 1865, which I read 18 April 2002, so I decided to read this book. Winik has mined other books, many of which I have read, and though there is no bibliography as such, his source notes identify the books he has used. But the book is not well-organized and jumps around chronologically and sometimes repeats itself. Winik spends a lot of time on the Holocaust and argues that FDR should have bombed the concentration camps, especially Auschwitz, since what was going on there was known . Winik excoriates Breckinridge Long as anti-Semitic and affirmatively resisting helping the Jews of Europe and he blames FDR for inaction, though recognizing that there were arguments against such bombing, but Winik says such arguments should have been disregarded. But Winik tells often a fascinating story of an important time and much of the book is good reading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that it would even end well. 1944 was a year that could have stymied the Allies and cemented Hitler's waning power. Instead, it saved those democracies -- but with a fateful cost. 1944 witnessed a series of titanic events: FDR at the pinnacle of his wartime leadership as well as his reelection, the planning of Operation Overlord with Churchill and Stalin, the unprecedented D-Day invasion and the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and the tumultuous conferences that finally shaped the coming peace. But on the way, millions of more lives were still at stake as President Roosevelt was exposed to mounting evidence of the most grotesque crime in history, the Final Solution. Just as the Allies were landing in Normandy, the Nazis were accelerating the killing of European Jews. Winik shows how escalating pressures fell on Roosevelt, whose rapidly deteriorating health was a closely guarded secret. Was winning the war the best way to rescue the Jews? Was a rescue even possible? Or would it get in the way of defeating Hitler? In a year when even the most audacious undertakings were within the world's reach, including the liberation of Europe, one challenge -- saving Europe's Jews -- seemed to remain beyond Roosevelt's grasp. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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There are a few quibbles, even with the five stars: 1) too many double negatives in the text; 2) similar to my review of the book on Gerald Ford, "Say it When I'm Gone" there is a bit too much focus on his medical symptomatology as his health deteriorated. Many are just not that curious about the details and their repetition. Also he lets Roosevelt off a little easy on his craven surrender at Yalta to the USSR and his sponsorship of a flawed and largely useless UN.
These quibbles are somewhat understandable considering how universal the esteem for Roosevelt as a "great President" remains. The book's coverage of the other historical figures is excellent.
Overall a fast read and a good book. ( )