War and Peace

FDR's Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945

By: Nigel Hamilton

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

To mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness. Using hitherto unpublished documents and interviews, Hamilton rewrites the famous account of World War II strategy given by Winston Churchill in his memoirs.

Seventy-five years after the D-day landings, we finally get to see, close-up and in dramatic detail, who was responsible for rescuing, and insisting upon, the great American-led invasion of France in June 1944, and why the invasion was led by Eisenhower. As FDR's D-day triumph turns to personal tragedy, we watch with heartbreaking compassion the course of the disease, and how, in the months left him as US commander in chief, the dying president attempted at Hawaii, Quebec, and Yalta to prepare the United Nations for an American-backed postwar world order. Now we know: Even on his deathbed, FDR was the war's great visionary.

©2019 Nigel Hamilton (P)2019 Recorded Books

Excellent book

Very interesting and informative book. However, I think the book laid too much emphasis on countering Winston Churchill's claims about the war, while the story speaks for itself. I would also have liked an epilogue that summarized the war's conclusion, rather than end abruptly after FDR died.

Great, great book spoiled by awkward narration

This is a spell binding, breathtaking history of one of America’s most important wartime epochs. So much in this book is new and noteworthy. Alas, the compelling narrative is often deeply marred by the tone, emphasis, inflection and even the dialect of its British narrator. Why couldn’t a great, baritone American voice (one with a more natural grasp of American history) have been used? This reader’s style was just completely wrong. It doesn’t ruin the magnificence of the book but it irks all the same.

5 stars for the whole series

I don't have much to say other than if you are interested in the war you should read this series. I can't find any significant flaws.

Sad that it didn't cover consequences of R's death

I would have given it 5 Stars if it had covered the repercussions of Roosevelt's death (the book ends immediately after Roosevelt dies) . Otherwise it was fabulous.

A wonderful informative read

Engaging from the first word! History as it should be ,a page turner. Presents Churchill and Stalin as flesh and blood characters! FDR we need you!