War and Peace, Nigel Hamilton
War and Peace, Nigel Hamilton
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War and Peace
FDR's Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

Author: Nigel Hamilton

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 21 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/07/2019

Synopsis

To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war-proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the famous account of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs. Seventy-five years after the D-day landings we finally get to see, close-up and in dramatic detail, who was responsible for rescuing, and insisting upon, the great American-led invasion of France in June 1944, and why the invasion was led by Eisenhower. As FDR's D-day triumph turns to personal tragedy, we watch with heartbreaking compassion the course of the disease, and how, in the months left him as US commander in chief, the dying president attempted at Hawaii, Quebec, and Yalta to prepare the United Nations for an American-backed postwar world order. Now we know: even on his deathbed, FDR was the war's great visionary.

About Nigel Hamilton

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Socraticgadfly on March 29, 2023

Basically, up to Yalta, this was a 4-star book. The chapters about Yalta are about 3.25 stars. The post-Yalta stuff is 2 stars. If that. I may have been generous. (This is updated in light of some yet more recent WWII reading and a second wave of thought. If I come across yet more, the book overall......more

Goodreads review by Stefanie on April 30, 2019

War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey is the third and final installment in Nigel Hamilton’s FDR at War trilogy. It is a fitting and poignant end to a series which highlights FDR as Commander in Chief during WWII. Its main aim was to show how FDR was as much a military commander as a politician, and Ni......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on July 05, 2019

Here is another superb addition to the literature on Franklin D. Roosevelt and World War II. Not a dry military tome, but an absorbing account of the final year of a war weary President in a dying body. It was plain to everyone who saw him-Churchill and his entourage-and those who lived with him-wif......more

Goodreads review by Marshall on July 17, 2019

This is an excellent conclusion to Nigel Hamilton’s account of FDR as a war leader. The book chronicles Roosevelt’s objectives and illustrates his accomplishments, the primary one being D-Day. The book also provides an account of how Roosevelt’s health declined through most of 1944-45 and how this w......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on January 13, 2023

Extraordinary in its emotionally exhaustive detail, this is a stunning piece of work that lays bare facts and information that shred commonly-held perceptions about the war (and particularly Churchill) while showcasing just how magnificent a wartime leader FDR actually was. It's end with his death i......more

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