LEADER 04265cam a2200529 i 4500001 274238 005 20240621234005.0 008 140619t20142013nyuabf b 001 0 eng 010 2014412039 020 9780812974973 |q(paperback ; |qacid-free paper) 020 0812974972 |q(paperback ; |qacid-free paper) 035 (OCoLC)ocn881724571 035 274238 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dOCL |dIHX |dOCL |dOCLCA |dLHM 050 00 E806 |b.P467 2014 100 1 Persico, Joseph E., |eauthor. 245 10 Roosevelt's centurions : |bFDR and the commanders he led to victory in World War II / |cJoseph E. Persico. 250 2014 Random House Trade paperback edition. 264 1 New York : |bRandom House, |c2014. 264 4 |c©2013 300 xviii, 650 pages, 16 pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-572) and index. 520 "All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt's Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the levers of wartime power like no president since Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Declaring himself "Dr. Win-the-War," FDR assumed the role of strategist in chief, and, though surrounded by star-studded generals and admirals, he made clear who was running the war. FDR was a hands-on war leader, involving himself in everything from choosing bomber targets to planning naval convoys to the design of landing craft. Persico explores whether his strategic decisions, including his insistence on the Axis powers' unconditional surrender, helped end or may have prolonged the war. Taking us inside the Allied war councils, the author reveals how the president brokered strategy with contentious allies, particularly the iron-willed Winston Churchill; rallied morale on the home front; and handpicked a team of proud, sometimes prickly warriors who, he believed, could fight a global war. Persico's history offers indelible portraits of the outsize figures who roused the "sleeping giant" that defeated the Axis war machine: the dutiful yet independent-minded George C. Marshall, charged with rebuilding an army whose troops trained with broomsticks for rifles, eggs for hand grenades; Dwight Eisenhower, an unassuming Kansan elevated from obscurity to command of the greatest fighting force ever assembled; the vainglorious Douglas MacArthur; and the bizarre battlefield genius George S. Patton. Here too are less widely celebrated military leaders whose contributions were just as critical: the irascible, dictatorial navy chief, Ernest King; the acerbic army adviser in China, "Vinegar" Joe Stilwell; and Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, who zealously preached the gospel of modern air power. The Roosevelt who emerges from these pages is a wartime chess master guiding America's armed forces to a victory that was anything but foreordained."--Amazon.com. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Roosevelt, Franklin D. |q(Franklin Delano), |d1882-1945 |xMilitary leadership. 650 0 Generals |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Admirals |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |zUnited States. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xCampaigns. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xDiplomatic history. 600 17 Roosevelt, Franklin D. |q(Franklin Delano), |d1882-1945. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00032031 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 650 7 Admirals. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00796937 650 7 Diplomatic history. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01905576 650 7 Generals. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00939841 650 7 Military campaigns. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01710190 650 7 Command of troops. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00869220 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 852 0 |bscstacks |hE806 |i.P467 2014