The Mantle of Command

<strong>A dramatic eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military direction of World War II.</strong><br/><br/>Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving Roosevelt aides and family members <em>The Mantle of Command</em> offers a radical new perspective on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's masterful--and underappreciated--leadership of the Allied war effort. <br/><br/>After the disaster of Pearl Harbor we see Roosevelt devising a global strategy that will defeat Hitler and the Japanese rescue Churchill and the British people and quell a near insurrection of his own American generals and War Department. All the while Hamilton's account drives toward Operation Torch--the invasion of French Northwest Africa--and the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. <br/><br/><em>The Mantle of Command</em> is an intimate sweeping look at a great president in history's greatest conflict.<br/><br/>This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt.--<em>Christian Science Monitor </em><br/><br/>Masterly.--<em>Wall Street Journal</em>