Meet the Author: Nigel Hamilton -- "The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 - 1942"

WWII historian and author, Nigel Hamilton, presents a close, in-the-room look at how President Roosevelt took masterful command and control of the Second World War, including wresting key decisions away from Churchill and his own generals, launching the first successful trial landing in North Africa and beginning to turn the tide away from the Axis. Based on years of archival research and interviews with FDR’s last surviving aides and family members, The Mantle of Command offers an in-depth account of FDR’s consummate - and underappreciated - command of the Allied war effort...and it comes at a perfect time. June 6, 2014, marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the defining battle of WWII and an operation that, Hamilton argues, was ordered by FDR as US Commander in Chief-overruling Winston Churchill (who was dead-set against the landings) and appointing a US Supreme Commander to head the operation: Dwight Eisenhower.
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[@jsrjsr6105]

Why does this talk not have more attention. A new perspective on an old issue and it’s a great one.

[@davidwatson2399]

Excellent talk, thanks 😎👍

[@stevecochrane3491]

FDR was a fool when it came to the Soviets. Churchill was wrong to want to cancel the Normandy landings, but right in wanting to cancel the southern France landings in favor of an allied landing in the adriatic that would put the allies in a position to take over Hungary and Czechoslovakia before the Soviets could.

[@oldgringo2001]

There was no chance a landing in the Adriatic would have gotten into Czechoslovakia any faster than Patton actually did, and without the port of Marseilles, the tight supply situation that held Patton back would have been worse The Soviet Union would probably have taken Hamburg and Denmark, and then there would have been no Beatlemania.

[@walterm140]

@@oldgringo2001 Exactly.

[@babyirene3188]

Who is this twerp? Dude, I hate to say it but the young Austrian woman was ind of right. War blows. Plus some of your facts are dubious. Your poor wife.

[@davidwatson2399]

What? Who are you.? He was right in what he said to that woman.

[@tyronebiggums8660]

War does blow, but unless you are prepared to fight wars then you abandon the world to those, like Hitler, who are prepared to fight war

[@babyirene3188]

@@tyronebiggums8660 True that.

[@buckeyesmith782]

This guy doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. I hope nobody reads his books, let alone take them seriously.

[@oldgringo2001]

You're entitled to your own opinion, but could you give the rest of us at least one reason why you have that opinion?

[@kevinmcinerney1959]

I've read several of Nigel Hamilton's books. He knows what the hell he is talking about.

[@MarkStickle]

Do you even know who he is? Can you tell us more about the archival sources you’ve explored or perhaps point us toward some of your own writings on the subject? Please enlighten us!

[@walterm140]

He's considered the main biographer of Montgomery whom he met as a teenager.