Years to VictoryMcKay, 1973 - 507 Seiten "Beginning with 'the loneliest man in the world,' General Dwight D. Eisenhower, making his decision to proceed with Operation Overlord, Years to Victory recounts the last years of World War II from the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to the utter defeat and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. As the dignitaries assembled on the deck of the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2, 1945, the Axis had been totally destroyed."--Book Jacket. |
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... President's speech was over , and the dutiful applause had died away , the convention was supposed to turn to the nominations for Vice President . Then the galleries started chanting , and the chants were taken up on the floor . We Want ...
... President's speech was over , and the dutiful applause had died away , the convention was supposed to turn to the nominations for Vice President . Then the galleries started chanting , and the chants were taken up on the floor . We Want ...
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... President was seated at a card table near the fireplace in his cottage on Bowdell Knob . He turned to the mail at once , with his usual wisecracks . He came to a bill passed by both houses extending the life of the Commodity Credit ...
... President was seated at a card table near the fireplace in his cottage on Bowdell Knob . He turned to the mail at once , with his usual wisecracks . He came to a bill passed by both houses extending the life of the Commodity Credit ...
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... President Roosevelt had told his Vice President literally nothing about what was going on . Except for what had appeared in the public press , Harry Truman knew nothing of what had gone on at Yalta . He knew nothing of the war plans ...
... President Roosevelt had told his Vice President literally nothing about what was going on . Except for what had appeared in the public press , Harry Truman knew nothing of what had gone on at Yalta . He knew nothing of the war plans ...
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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