Persico, Joseph E

Describes how much Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew from intelligence sources before the Holocaust and also whether or not he had advance warning about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

During World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized presidential powers like no president since Abraham Lincoln. FDR assumed the role of strategist-in-chief and though surrounded by star-studded generals and admirals, he made clear who was in command. The Roosevelt who emerges from these pages is a wartime chess master, guiding America's armed forces to a victory that was anything but foreordained.

The author presents a narrative of the final hours of World War One and recounts how Allied generals knew when the fighting would officially end but still sent thousands of men out against an already defeated enemy resulting in over eleven thousand casualties.

Recreation of trials with character portraits of the most notorious Nazi criminals.

This book illuminates the mystery surrounding the life and death of William J. Casey, former head of the CIA.

Discusses the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, drawing on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the people involved.

Examines Franklin Delano Roosevelt's intelligence and espionage operations during World War II and describes how much FDR had been told before the Holocaust about the coming fate of European Jews.