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"This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the Japanese Foreign Minister, who was the only one in Emperor...
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English
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The Partnership shines a spotlight on two giants of U.S. history, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, telling the stories of each man, the story of their collaboration to defeat the Axis-a master class in leadership and teamwork-and the story of the United States in World War II.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 451 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
Description
This untold story of the extraordinary collaboration between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Stimson, former President Herbert Hoover's secretary of state who became secretary of war, and Frank Knox, the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1936 who became secretary of the Navy, reveals the true extent of bipartisanship during the war.
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The story of the greatest "team of rivals" since the days of Lincoln. In a lifetime shaped by politics, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proved himself a master manipulator. But when war in Europe and Asia threatened America's shores, FDR found himself in a world turned upside down, where his friends became his foes, his enemies his allies. To help wage democracy's first "total war, " he turned to one of history's most remarkable triumvirates. Henry...
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"A Team of Rivals for World War II, here is the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington D.C. to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. Faced with the unprecedented challenges posed by a global war against entrenched and implacable totalitarian forces, Franklin Delano Roosevelt surrounded himself with a colorful group of strong-minded counselors, including...
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