Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943

By Nigel Hamilton

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Commander in Chief is a 2016 history by Nigel Hamilton, the second volume of his trilogy on Franklin D. Roosevelt as a wartime leader. It covers 1943, when Roosevelt overruled Winston Churchill and the British chiefs of staff on the strategy for defeating Germany, insisting on a cross-Channel invasion of France while managing the Casablanca, Tehran and other Allied conferences.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “For the history buffs on your list I'd recommend Nigel Hamilton's "Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill 1943." This is the memoir that FDR would have written had he lived.”