Jumat, 08 September 2017

MHQ Letters from Readers- Summer 2012

In Defense of FDR Thank you for Joseph E. Persico’s excellent article “Did Roosevelt Doom Us to a Longer War?” Spring 2012. In all the “what ifs” of World War II, the timing of the Allied invasion of France still generates interesting arguments. Persico has made a good case that Roosevelt’s decisions added “at least …

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