The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942

Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes listeners inside FDR's White House Oval Study - his personal command center - and into the meetings where he battled with Churchill about strategy and tactics and overrode the near mutinies of his own generals and secretary of war. Time and again, FDR was proven right and his allies and generals were wrong. When the generals wanted to attack the Nazi-fortified coast of France, FDR knew the Allied forces weren't ready. When Churchill insisted his Far East colonies were loyal and would resist the Japanese, Roosevelt knew it was a fantasy. As Hamilton's account reaches its climax with the Torch landings in North Africa, in late 1942, the tide of war turns in the Allies' favor and FDR's genius for psychology and military affairs is clear. This must-listen account is an intimate, sweeping look at a great president in history's greatest conflict.

• War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
• Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
• The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II
• The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff
• The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
• Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
• The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, Book 1)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
• The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
• George Marshall: Defender of the Republic