No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War

While Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges — a reluctant population, an unprepared military, and disagreements within his cabinet — to prepare the country for its inevitable confrontation with the Axis.

In No End Save Victory, esteemed historian ...