1944 FDR and the year that changed history

Jay Winik, 1957-

Sound recording - 2015

1944 witnessed FDR at the pinnacle of his wartime leadership as well as his re-election, the planning of Operation Overlord with Churchill and Stalin, the unprecedented D-Day invasion, the liberation of Paris and the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and the tumultuous conferences that finally shaped the coming peace.

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Published
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio [2015]
Language
English
Main Author
Jay Winik, 1957- (author)
Other Authors
Arthur Morey (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Description
17 audio discs (approximately 21 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9781442388017
  • Prelude: The sphinx
  • Part I. Spring 1944: everything all at once
  • Tehran
  • "I want to sleep and sleep twelve hours a day."
  • Escape
  • Escape, part two
  • "This is the year 1944"
  • "Could we be granted victory this year, 1944?"
  • Part II. The road to 1944
  • Beginnings
  • Mills of the gods
  • Giant cemeteries
  • Riegner
  • 1943
  • "The acquiescence of this government in the murder of Jews"
  • Part III. The fateful decision
  • Trapped between knowing and not knowing
  • The wind and the silence
  • Part IV. 1945
  • Reckoning.