{"product_id":"the-washington-war-fdrs-inner-circle-and-the-politics-of-power-that-won-world-war-ii","title":"The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Team of Rivals for World War IIthe inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington  D.C.  to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific.  The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capitals halls of powerand how the United States  which in December 1941 had a nominal army and a decimated naval fleet  was able in only thirty months to fling huge forces onto the European continent and shortly thereafter shatter Imperial Japans Pacific strongholds.  Three quarters of a century after the overwhelming defeat of the totalitarian Axis forces  the terrifying  razor-thin calculus on which so many critical decisions turned has been forgottenbut had any of these debates gone the other way  the outcome of the war could have been far different: The army in August 1941  about to be disbanded  saved by a single vote. Production plans that would have delayed adequate war matriel for years after Pearl Harbor  circumvented by one uncompromising mans courage and drive. The delicate ballet that precluded a separate peace between Stalin and Hitler. The almost-adopted strategy to stage D-Day at a fatally different time and place. It was all a breathtakingly close-run thing  again and again.  Renowned historian James Lacey takes readers behind the scenes in the cabinet rooms  the Pentagon  the Oval Office  and Hyde Park  and at the pivotal conferencesCampobello Island  Casablanca  Tehranas these disputes raged. Here are colorful portraits of the great figuresand forgotten geniusesof the day: New Dealers versus industrialists  political power brokers versus the generals  Churchill and the British high command versus the U.S. chiefs of staff  innovators versus entrenched bureaucrats . . . with the master manipulator  Franklin Delano Roosevelt  at the center  setting his brawling patriots one against the other and promoting and capitalizing on the furious turf wars.  Based on years of research and extensive  previously untapped archival resources  The Washington War is the first integrated  comprehensive chronicle of how all these elementsand towering personalitiesclashed and ultimately coalesced at each vital turning point  the definitive account of Washington at real war and the titanic political and bureaucratic infighting that miraculously led to final victory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945330929717,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345547586","price":26.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345547583.jpg?v=1769883810","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-washington-war-fdrs-inner-circle-and-the-politics-of-power-that-won-world-war-ii","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}