The conquerors : Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 / Michael Beschloss.
Record details
- ISBN: 0965526682 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0684810271
- ISBN: 0684810271 :
- Physical Description: xiv, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred percent American" -- "Oppressor of the Jews" -- "We will have to get awfully busy" -- "Not nearly as bad as sending them to gas chambers" -- Somebody's got to take the lead" -- "Christianity and kindness" -- "It is very, very necessary" -- "Do you want me to beg like Fala?" -- "A hell of a hubbub" -- "As useful as ten fresh German divisions" -- "Lord give the president strength" -- "The only bond is their common hate" -- "Arguing about the future of the world" -- "No earthly powers can keep him here" -- "What will we make of it?" -- "I was never in favor of that crazy plan" -- "You and I will have to bear great responsibility" -- "How I hate this trip!" -- "We are drifting toward a line down the center of Germany" -- "Spirit and soul of a people reborn" -- Conquerors. |
Summary, etc.: | Based on recently released documents, one of the nation's most celebrated historians reveals one of the little-known secrets of World War II--FDR's and Truman's sometimes shocking plans for a postwar Germany. |
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