Commander In Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943

The astonishing story of FDR's yearlong, defining battle with Churchill in 1943, as the war raged in Africa and Italy: "Superb." —Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post

1943 was the year of Allied military counteroffensives, beating back the forces of the Axis powers in North Africa and the Pacific—the "Hinge of Fate," as Winston Churchill called it. In Commander in Chief, Nigel Hamilton reveals Franklin D. Roosevelt's true role in this saga: overruling his own Joint Chiefs of Staff, ordering ...