Author: LACEY, JAMES
Title: The Washington war. FDR's inner circle and the politics of power that won World War II
Description: New York: Bantam Books, 2019, 1st ed.); 8vo (24.5cm), xxii+567pp., black-white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy Rare in NL. ¶ This book "is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capital's halls of power - and how the United States, which in December 1941 had a nominal army and a decimated naval fleet, was able in only thirty months to fling huge forces onto the European continent and shortly thereafter shatter Imperial Japan's Pacific strongholds." (blurb)

Keywords: World War II foreign policy USA