

Commander in Chief
FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Author: Nigel Hamilton
Narrator: Shaun Grindell
Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/07/2016
Author: Nigel Hamilton
Narrator: Shaun Grindell
Unabridged: 14 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/07/2016
Nigel Hamilton is a bestselling and award-winning biographer of President John F. Kennedy, General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery, and President Bill Clinton, among other subjects. He is a senior fellow in the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston, and first president of the Biographers International Organization.
Shoutout to William Lyon Mackenzie King! The 10th Prime Minister of Canada made this book possible with his dedicated journals of his war-time conversations with Churchill and FDR (they both trusted him implicitly). Because FDR died before he had a chance to write his version of events, we can only s......more
A fantastic and phenomenal history of the pivotal year of 1943 when it seemed like the Western Alliance would break and the US and UK would be fighting the same, yet separate wars. Mr. Hamilton does a remarkable job of keeping the suspense of the entire year and discussion between the American and t......more
Certain topics seem like they have been sufficiently covered, and the American role in World War II would seem to be one of them, as is the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The books that have been written on these topics can be measured in metric tons or by the millions of pages. What else......more
This is the second book in Hamilton’s trilogy on President Roosevelt’s role as “Commander in Chief” during WW2. (*see my October 2021 review of book one.) One of the author’s main points is to assert F.D.R. was the leader of the Allied effort to defeat the Nazis, not Churchill. (*Churchill paints i......more