Description: This intriguing history reveals how President Franklin D. Roosevelt, while on a fishing trip in the middle of World War II, altered his attitude...
Advocating Overlord: The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb offers a fresh look at the story of how in 1943 Great Britain and the United States struggled to craft and agree on strategy to liberate Europe from the west. Their choice was Operation Overlord, a violent thrust across northwestern Europe into the Nazi citadel that would begin with the Normandy landings, D-Day, on June 6, 1944. If, like many people, you think you understand arrival at that historical decision, Advocating Overlord is likely to inf
New, and based on eight years of research, is the book’s narrative enfolding an entirely separate, equally difficult, but concurrent negotiation: whether to allow British scientists back into the project to develop an atomic bomb from which they had been excluded by the Americans in 1942. Month by month in 1943, the two negotiations moved into ever closer proximity, something evident to only a very few at the top who had the “need to know.” Advocating Overlord is the first book-length examination of the li
Absent from past histories of how the Allies agreed to Operation Overlord, the view that negotiation of Allied military strategy and Anglo-American atomic cooperation became linked is controversial. Click on ABOUT THE BOOK , to read more about this tense, many-faceted story and why the atomic aspect might not have been considered decades sooner by most historians .