Meet the Author: James B. Conroy, “The Devils Will Get No Rest”
- Jan 17, 2024 at 7:00pm to Jan 18, 2024 at 8:00am EST
- Location: Online or: Location: Louisiana Memorial Pavilion, 945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130
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Reception: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Event: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public. Register today to join us in person or to view the event online.Join us in conversation with James B. Conroy, author of The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan that Won the War, a character-driven account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, an Anglo-American clash over military strategy that produced a winning plan when World War II could have gone either way. The Devils Will Get No Rest is the first full account of the secret conference, which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the most important Allied conclave of the war.
In a secret, no-holds-barred, 10-day debate in a Moroccan warzone, protected by British marines and elite American troops, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton Jr., Sir Alan Brooke, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Sir Harold Alexander, and their mil
- Created by: Scott Lyons
