The mantle of command: FDR at war 1941-1942

Maps

Prologue

Part one: Placentia Bay. Before the storm

Part two: Pearl Harbor. The U.S. is attacked! - Hitler's gamble

Part three: Churchill in the White House. The victory plan - Supreme command - The President's map room

Part four: trouble with MacArthur. The fighting general

Part five: end of an empire. Singapore - The mockery of the world - The battleground for civilization

Part six: India. No hand on the wheel - Lessons from the Pacific - Churchill threatens to resign - The worst case of jitters

Part seven: Midway. Doolittle's raid - The battle of Midway

Part eight: Tobruk. Churchill's second coming - The fall of Tobruk - No second dunquerque - Avoiding utter catastrophe

Part nine: Japan first. Citizen warriors - A staggering crisis - A rough day

Part ten: the mutiny. Stimson's bet - A definite decision - A failed mutiny

Part eleven: reaction in Moscow. Stalin's prayer

Part twelve: an industrial miracle. A trip across America - The President's loyal lieutenant - Part thirteen: the tragedy of Dieppe. A Canadian bloodbath - Part fourteen: the torch is lit. Something ins West Africa - Alamein - First light - The greatest sensation - Armistice day

Acknowledgments

Photo credits

Notes

Index.