Years to Victory"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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At 2130 , July 21 , the Presidential party boarded the heavy cruiser Baltimore and sailed immediately , Mr. Roosevelt oc- cupying the captain's day cabin , and Admiral Leahy the flag quarters . It was a pleasant voyage across the ...
At 2130 , July 21 , the Presidential party boarded the heavy cruiser Baltimore and sailed immediately , Mr. Roosevelt oc- cupying the captain's day cabin , and Admiral Leahy the flag quarters . It was a pleasant voyage across the ...
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He was punishing Roosevelt for not inviting him to the Yalta Conference . Roosevelt refused to be upset . He shrugged off de Gaulle's discourtesy with the remark , " Well , I just wanted to discuss some of our problems with him .
He was punishing Roosevelt for not inviting him to the Yalta Conference . Roosevelt refused to be upset . He shrugged off de Gaulle's discourtesy with the remark , " Well , I just wanted to discuss some of our problems with him .
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At the outset the weather was balmy , and the semitropical sun would have revived Roosevelt's spirits , had there been any reserve left in the President's body . But it was apparent to everyone that F.D.R. was near the end of the line .
At the outset the weather was balmy , and the semitropical sun would have revived Roosevelt's spirits , had there been any reserve left in the President's body . But it was apparent to everyone that F.D.R. was near the end of the line .
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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| Titel | Years to Victory |
| Autor/in | Henry Hitch Adams |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | McKay, 1973 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Nov. 2006 |
| ISBN | 0679140077, 9780679140078 |
| Länge | 507 Seiten |
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