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Book

1944 : FDR and the year that changed history

Author

Jay Winik

Call Number

  • 940.5373 W772 (CEN)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Physical Description

xiii, 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • 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.

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