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The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#266567
Titel	The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
Auteur	Wapshott, Nicholas
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, W.W. Norton
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	039308888X
ISBN13	9780393088885
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	In The Sphinx Nicholas Wapshott explains the profound and protracted difficulties Franklin Roosevelt had to overcome before he could commit American forces to the Second World War. FDR was obliged to turn around the reluctant American public, had to deal with isolationists in Congress and subdue leaders of opinion, including William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Kennedy, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford and Walt Disney. Wapshott explains in detail for the first time the punitive terms demanded by Congress that insisted that Britain must prove its bankruptcy before American military aid was provided. His account reveals the hardnosed bargaining between FDR and Winston Churchill that ultimately ensured the dissolution of the British Empire and the replacment of the Pax Britannica with the Pax America... (Lees verder)na.
Pagina's	446
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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